From: wilhelm-AT-ari.psico.net
Date:          Tue, 26 Mar 1996 01:01:43 +0000
Subject:       Re: HAB: HAB AND BODILINESS


     Dear James (and Dag)
     I think that Habermas knows and understand the
meaning of the body in the social interaction. Remember what he wrote
in first article of the third part of the "Vorstudien und Ergaenzungen
zur Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns" in 1975. Really, I think
-little near to Peirce and little far to Habermas- that the body has
an starring role in the meaning of the argue talk where alter and ego
get the agreement and find the way to the social coordination of the
action. In this place ego understand if alter spoke with veracity,
normative honor and sincerity. Habermas said more than once that the
body is a part of the action but it isn't the action. I don't agree
with this because it is -for me- a misreading of "the part by the
all" system meaning
     Apart from that, Habermas build in the `60's a
sharp idea about the body and the social meaning of it with
"Strukturwandel der Offentlichkeit", when he explains the
"representative offentlichkeit" -sorry, but I can't imagine now a
better translate-. The body build -in this idea- the meaning of the
social subject that carries it. Actually, with the mass media that we
have, this idea may be let us understand what happen with the
videopolicy and what is the meaning of this in the
"world-social-life" ("mundo de la vida").
(PS: Likever, sorry but my southamerican english isn't the best to 
speak about Habermas)

Cheeers,





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