Communication, Criticism, and the Postmodern Consensus

An Unfashionable Interpretation of Michel Foucault

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ID6350758
AuthorsJames Johnson (0000-0001-7109-4575, University of Rochester), James Turner Johnson (0000-0003-3555-169X, University of Rochester, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume25
Issue4
Pages559-583
Publication date1997-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0090591797025004004
OpenAlexW2010631892
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited37

A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought, the practices that we accept rest.... Criticism is a matter of flushing out that thought and trying to change it: to show that things are not as self-evident as one believed, to see that what is accepted as self-evident will no longer be accepted as such. Practicing criticism is a matter of making facile gestures difficult. Michel Foucault (1988b, 154

Aesthetics · Criticism · Epistemology · Gesture · Linguistics · Political science · Postmodernism · Rest (music · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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