Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:36:42 +0900
From: "Kwang-Pil Choi" <choikpil-AT-shinbiro.com>
Subject: Re: HAB: base and superstructure


Articles in Jurgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans by Thomas McCarthy (Beacon Press: Boston, 1976) will help you.

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On 98-11-26, at =BF=C0=C8=C4 3:18, Ueli Gaehler  wrote: 

>Tony wrote:
>> 
>> This may be slightly off topic, but as it has been pretty dead lately,
>> I'm trying to get a handle on Marx' notion of base (or basis) and
>> superstructure. On my first attemprt at finding literature on the topic,
>> I've found very little.  The connection to Habermas, as I see it, is
>> that  Habermas' rejection of the Hegelian ontology strikes me as of a
>> piece with the various efforts at either jettisoning the
>> base-superstructure model, or conversely, at implementing it.
>> What I am looking for is references to primary and secondary sources on
>> base-superstructure.  I'd especially like to read treatments of the
>> connection between Hegel and Marx on this.
>> Thanks for anything you can come up with,
>> Antoine
>> 
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>In "Zur Rekonstruktion des Historischen Materialismus" ( 1976 ) Habermas
>discusses the issues of base-superstructure. I don't know whether there
>is an english translation. I would recommend the introduction
>"Historischer Materialismus und die Entwicklung normativer Strukturen"
>and chapter 6 "Zur Rekonstruktion des Historischen Materialismus".
>Ulrich G=E4hler, Basel, Switzerland
>
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