What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when
popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other
about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim
to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the
foundational question of what 'critique' is in the first place. Roy
Ben-Shai inspects critique as an orientation of critical thinking,
probing its structures and assumptions, its limits and its risks,
its history and its possibilities. The book is a journey through a
landscape of ideas, images, and texts from diverse
sources-theological, psychological, etymological, and artistic, but
mainly across the history of philosophy, from Plato and Saint
Augustine, through Kant and Hegel, Marx and Heidegger, up to
contemporary critical theory. Along the way, Ben-Shai invites the
reader to examine their own orientation of thought, even at the
moment of reading the book; to question popular discourse; and to
revisit the philosophical canon, revealing affinities among often
antagonistic traditions, such as Catholicism and Marxism. Most
importantly, Critique of Critique sets the ground for an
examination of alternative orientations of critical thinking, other
ways of inhabiting and grasping the world.
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