Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:55:31 -0400
From: Ralph Dumain <rdumain-AT-igc.org>
Subject: Re: A Marcuse Renaissance????


I don't consider name-dropping to be an intellectual argument.  Do you 
think you could translate this verbiage into English?

At 12:27 AM 9/7/02 +0000, matthew piscioneri wrote:
>In all seriousness, wasn't that "something" the dialectical inversion of 
>the liberationary consciousness of the post-war period? There is a nexus 
>here I think between Habermas's reconstruction of the paradigm of 
>production, Adorno and Horkheimer's critique of the culture industry and 
>Foucault and Baudrillard (Zizek too?) waiting to be revealed, as it were. 
>Abstractly or theoretically the technology of the C20th DOES offer the 
>potential for the realization of the Communist society. The tasks 
>of  *new* critical theory as suggested by Doug in _Critical 
>Theory_  (Kellner,D. Critical Theory, Marxism and Modernity, (Polity 
>Press,1989) remain pressing: