Article: Critical theory in Global Political Economy: critique? Knowledge? emancipation?

So much literature in the field of International Relations stakes a claim for its author taking a 'critical' position. But the expression 'critical' is overused. It appears everywhere, and in a promiscuously wide range of contexts: critical theory of different kinds vies with critical realism, and with the 'simply' critical. The term has become ambiguous, so much so that it can do violence to the English language. 'Critical' theory was one of the great achievements imagined by Kant and developed in Marx's writing (Marx, 1973; Kant, 1993), and intended by both--in different ways--to be radical. But it has increasingly become a form of orthodoxy. Alternatively, it may be a ...

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