Politicizing Method: Critical Theory and its Others
Politicizing Method: Critical Theory and its Others

Summary/Abstract: The object of this essay is to problematize the notion of method from a critical, hermeneutical perspective that opens the doors to the so-called “others” of history. Unless method is redefined to be inclusive of the margins, it stands dangerously isolated wallowing in its isolation. The hermeneutics of method is about theory in a state of perpetual evolution as much as it is a revolution built into the notion of method. I raise questions and suggest possible answers which end up being another set of questions. The point where the other is able to define itself as a self can be understood based on parameters of the context in which the statement is made. In a manifest refusal to define method I make it possible to arrive at that space of “openness” which leaves the other with the historic choice of redefining the world.

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