Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:18:02 -0800 (PST)
From: James Compton <jcompton-AT-sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: HAB: HAB AND BODILINESS




On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Dag H Moldenhagen wrote:

> 
> At  time being I am working on the theme: Body an 
> public morality. Any of you who knows of articles touching the theme.
> I think our bodily existense is somewhat a silent ground by Habermas. 
> But maybe some of you have some  comments. 
> i know that tthe bodily eixtence has some role in his works. but 
> appears as a silent ground.
> 
> Dag 
> 
> Norway.
>

  Dag,

  Agnes Heller has commented on this issue from a Marxist perspective:

  "Habermasian man has ... no body, no feelings; the structure of 
personality is identified with cognition, language and interaction.  
Although Habermas accepts the Aristotelian differentiation between life 
and the good life, (chapter 2) one gets the impression that the good life 
consists solely of rational communication and that needs can be argued
for without being felt."

	Quote is taken from:

Heller, Agnes (1982). "Habermas and Marxism," Habermas: Critical Debates, 
Eds. John B. Thompson and David Held, London, MacMillan.


Cheers,

 
************************
James Compton
Graduate Student
School of Communication
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada
email: jcompton-AT-sfu.ca