Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 21:34:14 -0400 From: Martin Blanchard <tintamar-AT-club-internet.fr> Subject: Re: HAB: Habermas and Alain Renaut I guess you are referring to the critics Renaut made about Habermas replacing a philosophy of the subject with an intersubjectivist-linguistic turn. Rawls has developped a conception of the person, which makes some substantial moves about a democratic subject, and I think that this is what Renaut prefers over Habermas's kantian project (if my memory is good). To my modest knowledge, Habermas has never directly answered Renaut concerning that critic. But I know that Habermas might have read Renaut's work, or at least might be concerned with it. (I know that from a friend that...) So not having enough time to dig deep enough, I think that at first glance, either Habermas does not wish to repeat what he said in the 80's about the philosophy of consciousness, either he is sympathetic towards Renaut's work, but thinks that the search of a democratic ethos for the subject does not play on the same level than a formal pragmatic explaining how a consensus is obtained between a multitude of subjects. But more and more, I think Renaut had something there. Maybe, just maybe, the levels are not so different. Concerning Habermas' defiance towards the state, for example, I am tempted to say that a philosophy of the subject could certainly investigate some points that Habermas has neglected. But Renaut meant other things, for sure. I'm just expanding his criticisms from my own point of view. Anyways, in BFN Habermas made it clear that any ethos has no part to play whatsoever in a procedural validation of democratic decisions. Best, Martin Blanchard >Does anyone know if Habermas (or anyone else) has ever responded to thhe >Frenchh liberal philosopher Alain Renaut? I'm reading his book Kant >Aujourdhui, and in it he discusses at some length Habermas and Apel, and >concludes the long book by taking sides with Rawls against Habermas (more >or less). >Antoine Goulem > > > > > --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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