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Pierre Macherey (5976 words) |
 | Macherey argues that the term "criticism" itself is ambiguous: it suggests (1) a negative judgment, a rejection of the work, a condemnation (dénonciation) and (ii) "the positive knowledge (connaissance) of limits, i.e. |
| Macherey argues that this criticism regards the work as always preceded by its own ideal model to which it must be referred back — and this model may be construed as the work’s truth — its model and its end. |
| Macherey now draws our attention to a danger which much of his previous argument (particularly the previous section) invites: that is that in its perpetual movement of difference — its perpetual discarding — the work is in danger of becoming a purely factitious reality, a pure illusion. |
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