The idea of criticism that emerged in the 18th century is linked to the idea of crisis that has its most eloquent manifestations in the diagnoses of culture, full of pessimistic content, in the first decades of the 20th century. The “criticism of culture” arises in this context and becomes, with the “critical theory” of the Frankfurt School, a critique of ideology. The decline of cultural criticism, which went hand in hand with a disenchantment and weakening of the “human sciences” and the critical methodologies based on them (see, for example, how linguistics provided a model for the analysis of all forms of “discourse” ) cannot be disconnected from new epochal, political and cultural determinations. An important milestone for understanding and defining the transformations in the “spirit” of the time and the order of discourses is the publication, in 1979, of “The Post-Modern Condition”, by Jean-François Lyotard. In the fields of literary criticism and art criticism, the idea of a “post-criticism” begins to emerge, both on a theoretical and a pragmatic level, which cannot be disconnected from the triumph of cultural studies.