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>
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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

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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





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