From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: HAB: Re: THEORY & PRACTICE Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:51:23 +0000 <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <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. <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Every self satisfied social system needs one.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>MattP</DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: <a href='http://g.msn.com/1HM501201/43'>Click Here</a><br></html> --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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