Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 06:35:22 -0500
Subject: Re: HAB: Money, power, and ... images?



>> The fact is that Habermas's ideal speech situation--especially as suggested
>> in the second volume of  TCA, where he addresses the rationally vs.
>> empirically motivated distinction--perpetuates/encourages a dangerously
false
>> consciousness by denying the material/instinctual/power-based
situatedness of
>> ALL communicative action.


Gee I dunno but I think this is why he calls it *IDEAL*  Sorta like Marx's
distinction between alienated labor and non-alienated labor.  Never has and
never will be any such thing as non alienated labor in class society, but
that doesn't mean that it cannot be imagined.




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