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A philosophical framework holding that critique is always from a perspective—that what a critic sees depends on their theoretical commitments, social position, historical moment, and personal experience. Critical perspectivism rejects the idea of a view from nowhere in critique. A Marxist critique sees class; a feminist critique sees gender; a postcolonial critique sees coloniality. Each perspective reveals genuine dimensions of oppression, and no perspective exhausts the whole. Perspectivism demands that critics be explicit about the perspectives from which they speak and recognize that critique is always situated.
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