I've just finished carefully reading that chapter of _Between Naturalism and Religion_. I ventured here to say a bit, but deleted it. The essay is immensely...
Dear Gary Davis and Habermas List Members, My name is Olivier Urbain and I just joined this list, nice to meet you all. Not only am I new to the list, but I am...
Hi, Oliver, Â It's always nice to hear of new readers who want to dwell with Habermas' work. Â Let me reply strictly in terms of your posting, albeit in my...
The times are amazing. This season, are we witnessing the original emergence of a truly global "conversation" (among Euro-American and Euro-Asian ministries)...
Oliver, Well, you have to be careful in using terms such as "the public sphere" and "the administrative system", as though lifeworld and system were really...
In Die Zeit 06.11.2008, JH is interviewed at length. I hope that a reliable translation is available soon. I would expect it via signandsight.com, which quotes...
Gary, respectfully, you may be a little out of date in your attachment to neo-liberalism. ... face value, but will put up for ... My guess is your posing as...
Matt, I don't understand, evidently. My questioning of JH's point was that lumping the current environment into the "neoliberal" box isn't constructive,...
An English version of JH's recent interview is now available: "Life after bankruptcy" http://www.signandsight.com/features/1798.html I want to comment in some...
Dear Habermas List Members, I find a remarkable similarity between Marjorie Kelly's analysis and the passage from Habermas's interview quoted below. During a...
Hi Gary, everyone Thanks for sending this link. I haven't been following this or other online philosophy groups much recently but this seems a very important...
best wishes to the List for 2009 and thanks again to Gary for maintaining this wonderful Habermas resource In _Between Facts & Norms_ JH writes of the...
Hi Matthew, all I think this insistence of Habermas is what makes his work at this time so valuable. I tend to resynthesize this "lifeworld" in the context of...
"any thoughts welcome" Alright then, I'll bite. JH's notion of the lifeworld as knowledge that (paradoxically) we don't know we have, operating behind our...
Re: [Habermas] Re: the lifeworld From: "Stephen Evans" <sae57@...> Date: January 14, 2009 10:39:55 PM EST Just a brief response. I am teaching at the...
COGENT SCIENCE IN CONTEXT: the science wars, argumentation theory, and Habermas William Rehg MIT Press, 2009 The MIT Press page for this book includes...
special issue of _Philosophy and Social Criticism_ January/February 2009, Volume 35, No. 1-2 http://psc.sagepub.com/current.dtl (URL only directly valid for a...
The membership of the Habermas group continues to grow, albeit slowly, which is gratifying. I regret that there hasn't been a lot of activity, but I'm...
How Professors Think Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment Michèle Lamont (Harvard/European Studies) Harvard UP, 2009 Read the book jacket text: ...
Please see here also William Rehg's recent publication Cogent Science in Context: The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory and Habermas. MIT Press, 2009; a major...
This week, besides meetings of the G20, NATO, the Hague forum on Afghanistan, and the Arab League, a 175-nation climate change meeting, sponsored by the UN, is...
This great essay by Habermas was initially available for free download, but is no longer. The PDF of the essay is available to subscribers in the group files: ...
Hi Gary, I very much appreciate your email. I am taking the essay in some new directions involving situated, extended and social cognition--I will be sure to...
Stephen, Â Your posting of January, in response to Matt, is remarkable. I'm very sorry I haven't caught up on group postings until now. All subscribers should...
Matt, I'm unsure it's useful to you for me to reply to your posting so long afterward. Stephen provided such a rich response. He's surely in a great position...
Re: Stephen Evans, re: Matt, re: "the lifeworld" Sorry for multiple sendings of my reply to Matt. That won't happen here. (Don't draft postings in MSWord, if...
"...a response [by JH] to Paolo Flores d'Arcais," Feb. 2009 (Nov. 2007)[source footnote at the end below: *] http://www.the-utopian.org/2009/02/000063.html In...
Gary has raised multiple issues, each deserving extended individual treatment, however I'd like to attempt a single coherent response. To begin, If I seemed to...