Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:46:31 EDT
Subject: Re: HAB: Normativity


In a message dated 10/11/98 10:39:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca writes:

> I thought Habermas argued that strategic action is parasitical 
>  on communicative action (so strategic action isn't 
>  prelocutionary).  Strategic action is a deformed use of 
>  communicative reason.  Maeve Cooke notes that Habermas 
>  cannot support this argument - noting that it may be equally 
>  plausible to argue that the two suffer the same point of origin.

I read mostly Habermas as his critics have yet to mount a serious criticism
about the basic tenets of his works, particularly in his analysis of
lifeworld-system disparities and
commonalities, and of course in his linguistic theory which stipulates that CA
abides by the redeemability of the four validity claims and SA speakers do
not.  Part of the problem in understanding this is the unbelievable
pervasiveness of SA.  Fromm in his, The Art of Love, called it compulsive
competition, and recently Tanner claims that the problems with communication
stem from our society being too argumentative.  Given the daily onslaught of
deception and the constantly arising conflictual nature of organizational
interaction, I agree.

Fred Welfare


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