Freedom exists solely in the self-extensions toward non-freedom. The same holds true for critique: it can only operate on affirmative grounds, not from a safe outside or a distance that imagines the schöne Seele of the constituted realities, but in factually being contaminated by the subject of its analyses and inquiries. This does not make it any less critical. On the contrary, it is only here—with the courage of self-implication of the critical operation and of the critical subject into critical dialectic—that critique starts; a critique that is more than a self-righteous attitude, more than a narcissistic subterfuge of the self.