Thinkers demanding revaluation of subjective values get marginalized because that revaluation threatens liberalism itself.

Evidence

Scheler, on the other hand, offers a profound conception of change—and a structural change at that: the inner layers of the self demand a complete revaluation. Undertaking such drastic methods is clearly not in liberalism’s order, for any such attempt as Scheler has offered will per force change both the face and the substance of liberal subjectivity, and with it the very project of liberalism, which is precisely why the likes of Scheler and those calling for inverting and subverting values—from Herder to MacIntyre—have remained relatively on the margins of discourse, having been swept away by Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment doctrines amenable to liberal predilections (hence the dominance of neo-Kantianism, the concept of negative liberty, and the consequent validation of Said’s liberal critique). — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 502

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense, subversive thesis: the marginalization of value-inverting thinkers is not intellectual failure but an active defense mechanism of the liberal project itself — worth sitting with as a lens on why radical critique is structurally excluded.