What is "critique"

Usage examples of "critique".

That too brings philosophy nearer to the novel: for the first time philosophy is pondering not epistemology, not aesthetics or ethics, the phenomenology of mind or the critique of reason, etc.

Michael went to the kitchen to fix me some iced tea, while Dad, a semiretired general practitioner, began telling Rob in excruciating detail exactly what was wrong with my hand and what the doctors at Caerphilly Community Hospital had done to repair it, along with a largely favorable critique of their professional expertise.

Vivant, Chateaubriand avait pour lui tous les critiques, petits et grands.

A 1984 critique of counterinsurgency doctrine by former Kennedy counterinsurgent Charles Maechling, Jr.

This kind of critique of feminism originated in the work of African-American critics who pointed out that academic feminism had reproduced the structures of patriarchal inequality within itself by excluding the voices and experiences of black women.

But it soon became obvious that the end result of deconstructionist literary critique was always the same: the text blows up.

The critiques of the developmentalist view that were posed by underdevelopment theories and dependency theories, which were born primarily in the Latin American and African contexts in the 1960s, were useful and important precisely because they emphasized the fact that the evolution of a regional or national economic system depends to a large extent on its place within the hierarchy and power structures of the capitalist world-system.

For a critique of the developmentalist ideology of dependency theories, see ibid.

What if the dominating powers that are the intended object of critique have mutated in such a way as to depotentialize any such postmodernist challenge?

Entomology is far less essentialistic, far more open to difference and change, far more attentive to the body, than is, say, cultural critique grounded in Frankfurt School post-Marxism or in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Bill Tilden in his office and offered critique on the level of Bend Your Knees and Watch The Ball.

Making public such truths is an exemplary Enlightenment project of modernist politics, and the critique of it in these contexts could serve only to aid the mystificatory and repressive powers of the regime under attack.

In this passage from modernity to postmodernity, is there still a place from which we can launch our critique and construct an alternative?

Thus was born the Vicious Circle, a group of professional and semiprofessional writers who got together to critique stories, talk shop, and develop collaborative ideas.

Writing Group for critiquing scenes: Aly Parsons, Simcha Kuritzky, Connie Warner, Al Carroll, Michael La Violette, and J.