Subject: HAB: Brandom on Habermas
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 100 03:52:58 +0300 (EETDST)



I find the recent discussion on Brandom most stimulating, especially
considering that I've spent the past couple of weeks reading through
Making It Explicit. Indeed, one finds there many points of contact to
Habermas's philosophy of language, so many that Brandom's total lack of
reference to Habermas is puzzling, given his wide knowledge of the
German tradition from Kant to Heidegger. I am in the process of writing
a lengthy paper on the book (in Finnish); when that is done, I promise
to provide a summary of the relationship between Brandom and Habermas
for the list. (Haven't got Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung yet, though.) In
that context I will also reply to Matthew's criticism of the
Wittgenstenian thesis of normativity of meaning. Meanwhile, Brandom has
written a reply to Habermas: "Facts, Norms, and the Second Person: Reply
to Habermas 'From Kant to Hegel: On Robert Brandoms Pragmatic Philosophy
of Language'" is listed on his homepage as "forthcoming in the European 
Journal of Philosophy". (My Ph.D. thesis, as now conceived, could have
exactly the same title...) Brandom also comments on Habermas in passing in his
interview in a recent issue of Deutzsche Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie, I think.

Antti


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