ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the critical turn within the world of disciplinary journals. It asks what happens to political criticism when it is confined to the university. First is the continued institutionalization and further professionalization of the re-view function of the journal. It was indeed, academic institutionalization and professionalization of the social sciences that were major factors in their deradicalization. The chapter reviews the history of New Political Science at length to answer the question of whether institutionalization of criticism hampers its aims: to provide a critical re-view of the state and state-sponsored or supported injustice. In a note to readers of the first issue, editors announced that it aims to be a forum for discussion of theory, pedagogical practice, and organizational developments. However, as the author has argued in this chapter, criticism of power has dispersed throughout the disciplines.
