Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 08:19:52 -0700 (MST)
From: LEO MEEKS  <lmeeks-AT-du.edu>
Subject: Re: HAB: A connective experience: second attempt


Bob,

Do you really think, i know a lot of people do, but i raise it as a 
general question perhaps to get the list|s going, that Habermas' 
contributions to theory or critique -- if one could call it that -- put 
him in the same category with Adorno, Kircheimer, et al? It's just my 
opinion, and i could be wrong, but i see little of what Habermas has done 
as contributing to the Tradition of critical theory in a sustantive way. 
One could make the argument that he is operating a positive critique 
which supplements the negative dialectic, as he himself seems to, but 
isn't this really a betrayal of method, an abandonment of critique? 
Should we not ask whither critique?
Just wondering.

-leo
"please don't bury me down in that cold cold ground.
i'd rather have 'em cut me up and pass me all around.
through my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes
the deaf can have both my ears if they don't mind the size." -- John Prine


On Mon, 27 Mar 1995, Bob HUME wrote:

> As I was not aware there was a seoarate Habermas list I am all in favour
> of Habermas postings coming to Frankfurt School. Please let us know if it
> is going to happen or if there will be some advantage in also joining
> Habermas.
> 
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