Subject: Re: HAB: _Philosophy in a Time of Terror_ is available Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 07:14:34 +0000 Thanks Gary, Also John Gray has a book called Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern out this month. Independent has its review. After Habermas industry we have September 11 industry. Good luck! best ali ----Original Message Follows---- From: Gary E Davis <gedavis1-AT-yahoo.com> Reply-To: habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu To: habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu, habermas-AT-yahoogroups.com Subject: HAB: _Philosophy in a Time of Terror_ is available Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 00:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Paul Berman, author of _Terror and Liberalism_, reviewing Jean Bethke Elshtain's new _Just War Against Terror_, notes Elshtain's "catalog of the precise errors of logic and language" that leaves her "aghast" when she listens to academics talk about related current events. (J.B. Elshtain is professor of ethics at the University of Chicago). Read the review. Berman also briefly notes Richard Falk's _The Great Terror War_, which is important inasmuch as Falk "was" (emeritus now) an influential scholar of international relations and international law. http://homepage.mac.com/gedavis/Just_War.html ----------------------- Well, _Philosophy in a Time of Terror_ is on the shelves! _Philosophy in a Time of Terror: dialogues with Jrgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida_, by Giovanna Borradori, Univ. of Chicago, 2003 I bought my copy today. I want to discuss it when I've finished my dialogue with JH's article on the felling of the monument, which is moving along slowly (but confidently): http://homepage.mac.com/gedavis/JH/GD_on_JH_on_Iraq.html JH was mistaken in his reading of the Iraq Event, and that's clear by now (but I will make it clearer). It's troubling to me that JH took such a dogmatic stance toward the issue. I guess that German reaction against his support for intervention in Kosovo and Afghanistan was too much for his image as Germany's conscience. But I love his deliberative work (much as I may disagree with him these days---while relentlessly defending him---respectfully, I hope---against bad faith readings of him by others), so I don't wish to be disappointed by his views. I'm working to make his project thrive *better*, I hope. So, I'll be going into the new book genuinely hoping to largely (if not fully) agree with him. I anticipate that this new book will be special for me, since it poses Derrida with Habermas on the same (?) issue. I first formulated my reading of Habermas in light of Derrida's grammatology, many years ago, and found their commensurability (believe it or not) years before JH's _PDM_; so, I look forward to Derrida's views as much as Habermas'. Gary --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- _________________________________________________________________ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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