But insofar as the critique is intended only to address my claim of acting in a Kantian manner, my reply is that it is hardly un-Kantian to engage people in, as I put it, honest dialectic in a context of mutual respect.
It said the review was not intended to "critique" the individual actions of the department's leaders.
In a recent paper, Jauernig (2008) presents a markedly different interpretation, in part in an attempt to indicate that Kant's criticisms in the Critique are often intended to undermine various Leibnizian positions that Leibniz himself did not embrace.
He intended no critique of consumerism, just a celebration of colour and shape.
Appearing as the final witness at an Education Committee hearing intended to critique union work rules, Ms. Weingarten accused Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and Councilwoman Eva S. Moskowitz, the Education Committee chairwoman, of "demonizing" teachers.
It was intended to critique the persistence of the death penalty in the old hierarchies that placed a museum's authority above its public's feelings had been in charge.
Escape from Woomera is an unfinished point-and-click adventure video game, intended to critique the treatment of mandatorily detained asylum seekers in Australia as well as the Australian government's attempt to impose a media blackout on the detention centres.
The difference is that their critique of you is intended to be helpful.
By developing critiques of elite institutions intended to play mediator to public discourse (think academia or science), the right too often hides behind a veil of false equivalency, ably spurning school curricula, newspaper columns and scientific consensus alike.
There is a respectful caution in this kind of critique which, though undoubtedly well intended in theory, in practice throws a patronizing chill over such work.
