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The problem with critique as a posture

When critique becomes a posture, we end up strangely passive, waiting for culture to deliver us some new item to talk about. Critique as a posture, while an improvement over condemnation as a posture, can leave us strangely unable simply to enjoy cultural goods, preoccupied with our interrogation of their “worldview” and “presuppositions.”

—Andy Crouch, Culture Making , p.93

Aug 8, 2008, updated Apr 10, 2025