Below is a link to an interesting discussion of Habermas' comment on Internet life in his Bruno Kreisky Prize speech last March. Andrew Keen is a historian...
Well, it's been many months but I'm finally getting around to responding to this email... I had to take a detour through the work of Badiou because this is the...
Though there are around 140 subscribers to this group, very few post. The few who do post may have no reason to believe that there's much point, as we can...
Ken, I would like to reply at some length—my short reply earlier (deleted from the archive) was meant mainly as acknowledgement of your welcomed long posting...
Sorry to see that long dashes (rather than the series of hyphens "---") are not registered correctly by Yahoo!'s "new" software---appearing instead as...
Dear Gary, Firstly, thank you for maintaining this list and for responding to arguments and comments with such interest and undoubtful intellect... As a PhD...
Is anyone highly familiar with the cultural sociology of Jeffrey Alexander (Yale)? He's just published a magnum opus (apparently) entitled _The Civil Sphere_...
... By saying earlier that Habermas has "underdeveloped" "a 'performance' approach to social action," it's the *dramaturgical* type of action that is less...
I admit that in my reading of Habermas I didn't pause long to consider dramaturgical action. It seemed a minor point within his writings. Considering...
... Jeff, Thanks for your comments. I know I'm being a bit eccentric in giving the emphasis to dramaturgical action that I expressed. At least that may...
Gary I also would like to thank you for sharing your deep knowledge of Haberma's works with the list and for having invested your precious time in keeping the...
... I read most of the posts, although sometimes they'll sit in my inbox for a week before I get to them. (I get a lot of e-mail every day.) I especially...
At this time, I am very much involved in working on Habermas' issues. I am aware of and have downloaded files from the Yahoo Group site. At the autodidact...
• Did you subscribe impulsively and, now, postings from the group go to your junk/bulk folder? Or: You chose not to receive email from the group and don't...
... (No) Or: You ... I check everyday. (If you ... I do. ... • Are you a Habermas scholar afraid that posting ... I do not afrait in that way. But reading...
... time because I'm German native speaker and my English is not that refined.. ... and for a lot of secondary work; what I'm interested in here is free (in...
Though there are around 140 subscribers to this group, very few post. The few who do post may have no reason to believe that there's much point, as we can...
Dear Gary, I *enjoyed* reading your essay on the M.E linked to in your post. Like Friedman, I am beginning to contemplate the sheer impossibility of the...
Gary, although it may trouble many *progressive* commentators, I think there is more than a grain of truth in this: "In the West we've redefined "honorable" as...
Matt, thanks for your comments. You might also agree that the quote on honor codes might be seen to not trouble progressive commentators---more on that in a...
Earlier today, I noted that "I just deleted 9 paragraphs of response to my own imagination...." It was 11, and (I've decided) it's worth your time. "child's...
Gary, Your comments deserved careful consideration, so I have taken my time in responding. I trust the delay was worth it. ... into ... time, "academic" in the...
It appears that, because of fear and rage, the parties in the ME conflict are regressed to an immature level of thinking based on projection of badness into...
Matt, Your interesting posting seems to tacitly invite some elaboration of my earlier comments. A developmental-evolutionary perspective's usefulness may be...
Hello Gary, what a Sunday for progressive thinking! The thread heading is telling: getting beyond war as a social evolutionary proxy. Conflict and competition...
Hello Gary and List, ... In your opinion, then, to what degree does U.S militarism's lobbyists *distort* the force of communicative-reason in national- ...
Matt and all, Habermas has described the effects of Reason (critical discourse) on traditional societies: the loss of power of traditional beliefs, traditional...
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