Subject: HAB: new book on religion; interview on Sept. 11
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:41:13 -0400


I just received my copy of Habermas, Religion and Rationality: Essays on
Reason, God, and Modernity, edited and with an introduction by Eduardo
Mendieta (The MIT Press, 2002).  Its contents are:

Introduction (36 pages, by Eduardo Mendieta)

1.	The German Idealism of the Jewish Philosophers

2.	On the Difficulty of Saying No

3.	Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World

4.	To Seek to Salvage an Unconditional Meaning Without God is a Futile
Undertaking: Reflections on a Remark of Max Horkheimer

5.	Communicative Freedom and Negative Theology: Questions for Michael
Theunissen

6.	Israel or Athens: Where does Anamnestic Reason Belong?  Johannes
Baptist Metz on Unity amidst Multicultural Plurality

7.	Tracing the Other of History in History: Gershom Scholem's Sabbati
Sevi

8.	A Conversation About God and the World: Interview with Eduardo
Mendieta

Except for chapters 2 (7 pages on Klaus Heinrich on protest) and 8 (an
interesting interview) and Mendieta's introduction, all of these essays have
already been published in English.  $20 is a lot to pay for an interview.

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Also, I'm interested in an interview with Habermas which Thomas Gregersen
listed in his extremely helpful updated bibliography (posted to this list on
June 17):

"Fundamentalismus und Terror. Antworten auf Fragen zum 11. September 2001"
(interview), in Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik no. 2/02
(February 2002) pp. 165-178.

I went to the journal's website, where the interview is not available, but
the following blurb is:
Fundamentalismus und Terror
JÜRGEN HABERMAS gibt Antworten auf Fragen zum 11. September 2001. Der
Mit-Herausgeber der "Blätter" plädiert für eine Revision der normativen
Selbstdarstellung unserer Gesellschaft: "Es geht nicht nur um
Diskriminierung, um Kränkung und Erniedrigung anderer Kulturen. Das Thema
'Kampf der Kulturen' ist oft der Schleier, hinter dem die handfesten
materiellen Interessen des Westens (zum Beispiel an der Verfügung über die
Erdölvorkommen und der Sicherung der Energiezufuhr) verschwinden." Bei der
kritischen Überprüfung seines Weltbildes könnte der Westen auch lernen, was
sich an seiner Politik ändern müßte, wenn er als eine zivilisierende
Gestaltungsmacht wahrgenommen werden möchte - denn ohne eine politische
Zähmung des entgrenzten Kapitalismus sei der verheerenden Stratifikation der
Weltgesellschaft nicht beizukommen.
If anyone has a copy of this interview to share, please contact me off list.
Thanks, Vic



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