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From: "FFiorenza" <francis_fiorenza-AT-harvard.edu>
Subject: RE: HAB: Habermas, realism, and Lafont
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 07:54:46 -0500


I am not sure about that.  Though he had in previous essays in the book
referred to her German book, in the eessay I referred to he refers to an
1997 Pluralism and Universalism in Discourse Ethics article that she wrote.
(I don't know to what extent this is included in the English version of her
book.) His own essay Richtigkeit versus Wahrheit I believe was originally
published in 1999 in DZfPh and perhaps too late for the English edition of
her book. Since I have the German and not English version, I do know whether
she has taken this essay into account.   Francis

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Interesting. Thank you very much for this.

However, inasmuch as Lafont's argument is made only in the English
edition--which adds an entire part to the text that has been translated--and
has presumably had much opportunity to "test" her argument with Habermas at
Northwestern, I would imagine that his objections are part of the background
to
her argument in the recent MIT book. No?

FFiorenza wrote:

> With reference to the contributions of Gary and Martin,
>
> I have recently been reading Habermas's recent collection  Wahrheit und
> Rechtfertigung.  In the final essay, section vii (though there are
scattered
> references throughout the collection), Habermas takes issue with Lafont's
> interpretation of the cognitive claim of discourse ethics (and
consequently
> of Habermas's own postion) insofor as she assimilates practical discourses
> to empirical and theoretical discourse. He argues against her for the
> specific constructive character and epistemic role of practical discourse.
> In his view she ontologizes the domain of generalizable interests in order
> to argue for such an assimilation.
>
> Francis Schussler Fiorenza
> Harvard University
>
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