Subject: Re: HAB: Absolute Subject in Endless Disagreement
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 06:12:04 +0000
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<P>No I am not familiar with Negri/Hardt's work unfortunately though I am sympathetic with these sentiments:<BR><BR>>What I most </P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>dislike are intellectuals who seem to feel it is alright to speak
<DIV></DIV>>'for the masses' but not 'to the masses'. These are the elitists and
<DIV></DIV>>radicals (archetypal hypocrites being folks like Hardt and Negri,
<DIV></DIV>>the authors of "Empire") who criticize 'trickle-down' elitism in
<DIV></DIV>>global economics but then actively promote 'trickle-down' elitism
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<P>>when it comes to education and communication. </P>
<P>Is this a more recent work of theirs or an earlier work? </P>
<P>>In an </P>
<DIV></DIV>>ironic reversal of Marx's famous quote, Marx*ism* has become 'the
<DIV></DIV>>opiate' of the elite, a religion of inner-dialectic (dialectic as
<DIV></DIV>>monologue) which has disengaged from the reality of general
<DIV></DIV>>experience and hence cannot communicate anything helpful to effect
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<P>>substantial change in the world. </P>
<P>Funnily enough this is similar to a "charge" I level at Habermas's theory. His theory construction is so "hopelessly academic" as he himself describes it that "practical" efficacy is compromised. Although to be fair Habermas does specify his audience and its not the workers!</P>
<P>Can I beg off on this one? Habermas provides a discussion of it in V1 of the TCA pp381-84 of my 1995 Polity Press edition; then its back to the _DoE_.</P>>And since I'm not familiar with Adorno, maybe you could elaborate a
<DIV></DIV>>little for me on what his idea of "reconciliation" in the
<DIV></DIV>>"quietness" is about..
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<DIV>regards,</DIV>
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