Critique and Its Postnational Aftermath

Abstract

The question, or questions rather, go, as far as I am concerned, something like this: Is critique inescapably circumscribed by mid-twentieth-century Kritik? If so—and on this ground—is critique also perhaps outmoded, on history’s proverbial ash heap? Further, if we answer with another “yes,” the last and, to me, most timely question then is, Can one still be critical—of literature, of the world, and of ourselves—after critique, in an aftermath undeniably fashioned urbi et orbi by accelerating globalization?