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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:09:52 -0500
From: "Shawn P. Wilbur" <swilbur-AT-libertatia-labs.org>
Subject: [postanarchism] Derrida/Habermas


I finally tracked down the issue of Constellations with the Habermas-penned,
Derrida-co-signed piece - "February 15, or What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea
for a Common Foreign Policy, Beginning at the Core of Europe." It turns out to
be pretty tame stuff, given all the spin it's been getting. The "offending
passage" is this:

"In this world, the reduction of politics to the stupid and costly alternative
of war or peace simply doesn't pay. At the international level and in the
framework of the UN, Europe has to throw its weight on the scale to
counterbalance the hegemonic unilateralism of the United States. At the global
economic summits and in the institutions of the WTO, the World Bank, and the
IMF, it should exert its influence in shaping the design for a coming global
domestic policy."

Ho-hum. Probably right as far as it goes - which isn't far - and not anywhere
outside a statist framework. Both Habermas and Derrida are more profound on
these topics elsewhere.

-shawn

   

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