In recent decades the topic of critique has been the subject of lively debate in philosophy and the humanities. At the centre of these debates is the final deadlock that critique is experiencing and the means of displacing or renewing its paradigm. A ‘postcritical turn' has become an umbrella term for the content and focus of efforts to renew critique. The critical tradition associated with deconstructive, psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist practices has been questioned because of its negative, “suspicious” and symptomatic way of interpreting objects, texts and other cultural works. The common denominator of this tradition is a “hermeneutics of suspicion”, a focus on exposing and revealing the untold and hidden. Postcritique advocates an alternative model of interpretation, encouraging critics to move from the ideal of exposing hidden meanings, ideological implication and repressed content, to a spirit of positivity, care and protection of explicit text content, aesthetic properties and affective capacities of objects. The article reveals the principles, content, and controversial points of the post-critical mode of renewal of critique. The contours of critique as problemati-zation, designed to go beyond both traditional critique with its aspiration for denunciation and the quietist aestheticism of postcritique, are presented. Critique as problematization is defined in the totality of its three modalities: the histori-cization of self-evident forms of life and subjectivities, discursive and non-discursive practices of resistance to the present, and the transformation of modes of subjectivation. The rationale of critique as problematization is argued as follows. The first part of the article discusses the critical position of critique, accompanied by such phenomena as suspicion, scepticism and conspiracy thinking, naturalization and relativization of facts. The background to the shift in the meaning of critique from negativity to positivity is outlined. The second part of the article discusses the main principles of postcritique: positivity, the shift towards affective engagement with the object of study; actualism, the attention to the contemporaneity of the object, rather than its reduction to different contexts; immanentism, the derivation of a specific way of being from its referential links. The third part presents the general contours of critique as a problematization designed to go beyond its treatment of both negativity and positivity. In conclusion, two necessary requirements for a problematizing critique in the present context are expressed.