ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Foucault's observation, in which the critique mostly seems to be informed by a juridico-discursive style of thought focusing on judging and condemning, negating and rejecting. Dispersion, deficit, dependency, distance are the four moments of the juridical-discursive conception of critique mark Foucault's starting point. Foucault's genealogy of critique first and foremost refers to the concept of ideology critique, it also goes well beyond two contemporary ways of re-founding critique: the philosophical-normative project on the one hand and the sociological-empirical on the other. Foucauldian account of critique is characterized by four aspects such as Ethos, problematization, the art of voluntary insubordination, and the audacity to expose oneself as a subject. According to Foucault, critique does not refer to a lack of knowledge but to the limits truth regimes impose on autonomy and equality. The risk-minimizing activity characterized by the reduction of critique to a juridical procedure and a system of codes regulates proper belonging and legitimate access.
