Critique as Coloniality
The Decolonial Challenge to Immanent Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6249757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shivani Radhakrishnan (0000-0003-2413-7012, Vassar College Poughkeepsie New York USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 476-483 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Constellations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-0487 • E-ISSN: 1467-8675 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8675.12790 |
| OpenAlex | W4408500790 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Frankfurt School methodology involves a lasting commitment to immanent critique. What distinguishes immanent critique from other forms of social criticism, scholars in this tradition argue, is that social practices are to be judged according to norms and potentials already contained within their objects. This article considers critical theory's relationship to coloniality by developing a three‐part challenge to the practice of immanent critique, drawing on insights of decolonial philosophers Anibal Quijano, Enrique Dussel, Maria Lugones, and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Immanent critics, I conclude, risk being inattentive to constitutive exclusions, reinscribing asymmetrical burdens on certain critics, and unwittingly replaying a mechanism of domination familiar from colonialism in and through their preferred method of critique. Accordingly, I argue that immanent critics should attend to relations of power that govern the practice of critique itself and offer reasons for being more pluralistic about our methods of criticism
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Sociology · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
The invention of women
Diagnosing Social Pathology
The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
Monocultures of the mind
Intersectionality as Critical Inquiry
Burdened Virtues
Rethinking Ideology
Decolonial Feminism at the Intersection
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America
Why immanent critique
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex
Global Fragments
Critique of Forms of Life
On Immanent Critique in Hegel’s Phenomenology
The end of progress
Have we got a theory for you! Feminist theory, cultural imperialism and the demand for ‘the woman's voice’
Reconstructive Social Critique with a Genealogical Reservation
The other within
New Approaches to Latin American Studies
On the Postcolony
Unruly practices
From Critical Social Theory to a Social Theory of Critique
Ideology Critique from Hegel and Marx to Critical Theory
Habermas and the Project of Immanent Critique
The Cunning of Recognition
Capitalism
Culture and Imperialism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |