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Subject: HAB: Re: PART I  - Habermas on Irak
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 23:19:42 -0400


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JH:
>The United States - which for half a century could claim to be a pacemaker on this road - has, with the Iraq war, not only >destroyed this reputation and given up the role of a guarantor power in international law; with its violation thereof she sets >future superpowers a disastrous example. Let's not kid ourselves: America's normative authority lies shattered.


    What to make of it when Habermas, no trace of irony, expostulates as above?  his seeming nominalist creditation of the ideological apparatus (UN charter, human rights, etc) of US foreign policy?  is this what ken means by his post-hermeneuticism?  what's the value of discourse founded on the faith of such illusory forms?

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JH:
>The United States - which for half a century could claim to be a pacemaker on this road - has, with the Iraq war, not only >destroyed this reputation and given up the role of a guarantor power in international law; with its violation thereof she sets >future superpowers a disastrous example. Let's not kid ourselves: America's normative authority lies shattered.
 
 
    What to make of it when Habermas, no trace of irony, expostulates as above?  his seeming nominalist creditation of the ideological apparatus (UN charter, human rights, etc) of US foreign policy?  is this what ken means by his post-hermeneuticism?  what's the value of discourse founded on the faith of such illusory forms?
 
 
 
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