From: Vunch-AT-aol.com Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:42:35 EST Subject: Re: HAB: "German" contexts? No: global localities--"in the name of humanity" In a message dated 2/12/01 5:45:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, schilton-AT-d.umn.edu writes: > The key is in the performative > contradiction. If one is unable to corner a skeptic through > this device, then something is wrong with one's understandings > of the presuppositions of argumentation, and one must > reconstruct them (and thus discourse ethics) afresh. > This is not the problem that I run into normally. However, when I explain the vision of critical theory and Habermas' perspective then I do perceive a skeptic emerge. To understand and accept Habermas understanding requires a great deal of plain old reading! Anyway, the problem that I run into is spelled out repeatedly by Habermas: The prevalence of strategic orientations requiring transformation into communicative action contexts through therapeutic dialogue against the prevailing ethos which is "enforced" by power and money. Vunch --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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