Subject: Re: HAB: Communicative Communism
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:37:54 -0500 (EST)


Kenneth writes:
> 
> I was reading Castoriadis's _The Imaginary Institution of 
> Society_ and came across an interesting passage in his 
> chapter on communism and the mythic:
> 
...

> 	No society will ever be totally transparent
...
> 
> I wonder if this insight could be applied to Habermas's 
> understanding of speech... which *could* be interpreted as 
> communicative communism.... (I am aware of some subtle 
> differences but there seems to be some weight to this kind of 
> critique).

Ken:
When Habermas states that

"I do not regard the fully transparent society as an ideal"
["Reply to my critics" 235]

do you find his denial credible?


Phil Ryan
Ottawa


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