Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 23:48:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gary E Davis <gedavis1-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: HAB: New: Habermas on detranscendentalized use of reason


Habermas offers a new philosophical essay in a new collection of
essays in honor of Thomas McCarthy, edited by William Rehg and James
Bohman. The Habermas essay is entitled "From Kant's 'ideas' of pure
reason to the 'idealizing' presuppositions of communicative action:
reflections on the detranscendentalizing 'use of reason'," in
_Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Critical
Theory, essays in honor of Thomas McCarthy_, MIT Press, 2001.

Habermas focuses "on the idealizing performative presuppositions of
communicative action," not in order to again "explicat[e] the concept
of 'communicative reason',' but rather to focus on "the genealogical
examination of the context in which this conception originated" (14).
Though the conception begins with Kant, Habermas's central intent is
to examine the meaning of detranscendentalization. "Certainly, there
is a family resemblance between these presuppositions and Kantian
concepts" (ibid), but "detranscendentalization signifies a profoundly
invasive intervention into his basic architectonic" (15).

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