Subject: HAB: Re: solidaridad (translation) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:32:35 -0500 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Dear fellow readers of the philosophy of Habermas and Critical Theory: The critical tradition of the Frankfurt School was not formed around the banality or the superficiality of philosophy. Instead, it was formed on the shoulders of the social and political problems of its age. This is CRITICAL THEORY. Social theory and social philosophy only in the PRACTICAL sense, is what has the sensitivity capable of having an impact on the problems of its time. The traditional conception of philosophy takes only a "technical" perspective on philosophy which reduces it to a simple game of definitions and terms and an exegesis of concepts, for academic entertainment. This is a sterile philosophy incapable of being what is sought by such figures as Weil, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Marcuse, etc., and, of course, Habermas. To interpret what is happening in our time: the pathologies of modernity, the bestialization of humanity, consensus as a regulative idea, etc. It is for this reason that it is not destined to be able to respond to the urgencies of our day in the world. There is a massacre in Palestine, hundreds of youth detained, dead, etc. Do you believe that Habermas's philosophy is indifferent to all this and that it has nothing to say on the subject? Philosophy is neither the analysis of language nor an investigation; (it?) is more serious because it presents itself as "neutral" on those occasions when it is called on. To denounce anti-semitism, as did the Institut fur Sozialforschung in the 30s and 40s, was not academic entertainment but, on the contrary: it was a question of life and death, like that which, today, it behooves us to denounce: the killing of Palestinians as politics of the State. ______ Corrections welcome.
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