Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:49:27 -0500
Subject: Re: HAB: RE: Re: Who is really interested in JH's works?


Guillermo:

Sería muy interesante si pudieras aprofundizar la intuición de que Habermas
puede ayudarte a
enfrentar la coyuntura colombiana.

Phil Ryan
Ottawa

Guillermo Hoyos Vasquéz wrote:

> Estimados amigos:
> me permito disentir desde una Colombia casi en "guerra", donde leer e
> interpretar a Habermas ayuda a volver a apostarle a la democracia radical.
> Sigo sus discusiones con entusiasmo!
> Un saludo,
>
> Guillermo Hoyos Vsquez
> Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Culturales PENSAR
> Tel. 57 1  3208320/2/5440 FAX: 57 1 3208151
> Universidad Javeriana, Bogot, Colombia
> e-mail: ghoyos-AT-javercol.javeriana.edu.co
> http://www.javeriana.edu.co/pensar/PP.html
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>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: owner-habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> [mailto:owner-habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]En nombre de Thomas
> McDonald
> Enviado el: Viernes 29 de Marzo de 2002 01:19 PM
> Para: habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Asunto: HAB: Re: Who is really interested in JH's works?
>
> I am genuinely interested in Habermas's works, particularly in an
> 'everyday' sense of applicable, universal ethics, but I also appreciate
> his work in it's own right as modern philosophy that I see in a certain
> context, as related to certain philosophical traditions.
>
> What I don't appreciate is a lack of diversity in views and uses of JH
> on this list.
>
> I consider my own political perspective to be moderate, fairly centrist
> as American politics goes, and to my sensibility most of the discussion
> here is dominated by extreme Left-wing perspectives.
>
> This seems especially unfortunate to me when the most hopeful aspect of
> JH's work seems to be it's universiality and purpose of achieving
> grounds on which any dialogue can take place.
>
> Rather than seeing JH's theory as a framework for discussion, many of
> the Left here seem only to appropriate it as another weapon of critique
> against whomever they feel like deconstructing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
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