A social work that claims 'critique' or 'critical' as constitutive components of its self-description must expose itself to the - never completed - imposition of a self-assurance that is directed at the systematic reflection of the social conditions, the social place, the function, the consequences and the content of 'critique'. The necessity of entering a new phase of self-reflection of critical social work arises all the more, because in the course of the neoliberal restructuring of society and the theory and knowledge productions that accompany it, 'critique' has not only lost its self-evident nature. Moreover, 'critique' in a substantial sense has become almost arbitrary in its scientific statements and largely non-binding in its practical consequences. Against this background the Sam.