From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: HAB: Re: THEORY & PRACTICE
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:51:23 +0000
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<P>Ralph,</P>
<P>Hasn't "enlightenment" been institutionalized/bureaucratized somewhere in between the public, political and administrative spheres? There is a fairly well defined career path to be followed in managing enlightenment for the masses.</P>
<P>Part of what I think Habermas is on about is constructing a not too cynical vision of the post-revolutionary world which we inhabit and which via globalization is being exported (attempted to be exported) everywhere.</P>
<P>I recall someone on the List globalizing Habermas's colonization thesis, and even reading September 11 as an act of lifeworld resistance alongside anti-G. protests although this is getting off the point of your post.<BR><BR>> The interference of political parties in the total </P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>intellectual
<DIV></DIV>>and cultural life of groups of people and entire nations that we
<DIV></DIV>>know so
<DIV></DIV>>well obscures the original, delimited extension of the notion of the
<DIV></DIV>>unity
<DIV></DIV>>of theory and practice, pertaining to instrumental politics
<DIV></DIV>>specifically
<DIV></DIV>>and not to the entire "organization of enlightenment" about which
<DIV></DIV>>Habermas is justly troubled.
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<DIV>Organized enlightenment is an unexorcisable part of the structures of social governance now. As Habermas described it in _BFN_: the dialectic of tutelage and empowerment.</DIV>
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<DIV>Every self satisfied social system needs one.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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