un travail critique de soi sur soi

English translation: critical self-analysis

12:47 Apr 1, 2008
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / Mediterranean region
French term or phrase: un travail critique de soi sur soi
Here's the context:

Le fait colonial soulève cette question, car si cet épistémè fonctionnait autrement même aujourd’hui, l’Algérie ferait partie de l’ensemble européen méditerranéen, avec beaucoup moins d’obstacles insurmontables tels qu’ils s’imposent encore après 50 ans d’indépendance. L’Algérie ne fait pas encore un travail critique de soi sur soi.

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Dana Pottratz
France
Local time: 12:26
English translation:critical self-analysis
Explanation:
...is not yet willing to carry out critical self-analysis, or something along those lines.
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Rob Grayson
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:26
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Summary of answers provided
4 +10critical self-analysis
Rob Grayson
4undertake self-criticism
Gustavo Silva
3self-assessment
Victoria Porter-Burns
3a process of auto-critique
Melissa McMahon


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +10
critical self-analysis


Explanation:
...is not yet willing to carry out critical self-analysis, or something along those lines.

Rob Grayson
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:26
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
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Thanks

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
self-assessment


Explanation:
Or 'self-evaluation'. Just two more options.

Victoria Porter-Burns
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
undertake self-criticism


Explanation:
my suggestion :-)

Algeria has not yet undertaken self-criticism.

Example sentence(s):
  • if we are unwilling to undertake self-criticism we shall not be able to change ourselves
  • so that the critical agent can undertake criticism as a split subject

    Reference: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mazumdar/1968/12/x...
    Reference: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2220/is_1_42/ai_63819...
Gustavo Silva
Portugal
Local time: 11:26
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
a process of auto-critique


Explanation:
I think Rob's suggestion is good, but 'auto-critique' is a term also used in theoretical/political circles to refer to the same process.
Might depend on the tone of the rest of the text?

"Algeria has not yet engaged in a process of auto-critique."

Melissa McMahon
Australia
Local time: 22:26
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
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