Subject: Re: HAB: solidarity [Ralph #3]
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:48:27 +0000
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<P>Dear Ralph,</P>
<P>I'll rise to the bait. CXaught eight fish tonight. Here I think you miss the nuances of Habermas's work. I think at the basis Jurgen Habermas is probably fairly caring:<BR></P></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>>But Habermas,
<DIV></DIV>>in spite of his early engagement with Hegel, his inept reading of
<DIV></DIV>>Marx, etc., seems to have stagnated as an alienated liberal
<DIV></DIV>>academic. Those who study him seem to be much worse, far more
<DIV></DIV>>conservative, even. Furthermore, most of them are just academic
<DIV></DIV>>masturbators. Critical theory has become an object of aesthetic
<DIV></DIV>>contemplation, not an active tool to engage reality. Hence the
<DIV></DIV>>precious baloney we are always reading on these lists.
<DIV></DIV>>'Communicative rationality' is only middle class gentility, not the
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<P>>preservation of individual autonomy and freedom of inquiry.</P>
<P> </P>>"I treat the ridiculous seriously when I treat it with ridicule."
<DIV></DIV>> -- Karl Marx
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