The task, therefore, is to start from where we are, in Rorty's words(quoted in Linklater 1998: 77), and excavate the principles and values that structure our political society, exposing the contradictions or incon- sistencies in the way our society is organized to pursue its espoused values This point is endorsed by several other critical international theorists especially Kimberly Hutchings, whose version of critical international theory is heavily influenced by Hegel's phenomenological version of immanent critique. Immanent critique is undertaken without reference to an independently articulated method or to transcendent criteria(Hutchings 1999: 99)