Stanley Fish comments on Habermas' _An Awareness of What is Missing_ in today's NY Times, "Does Reason Know What It Is Missing?" (1), which might not be...
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sae57
Jul 12, 2010 1:54 am
Note: My interest here is in the issue of state legitimation, not specific issues, however, readers should be aware that most of what has been published in the...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Jul 12, 2010 9:01 pm
Stephen, Thanks for your detailed discussion. As always, your accounting is very useful. Relative to a model of social development suggestive of Habermas'...
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sae57
Jul 15, 2010 1:13 am
Gary, Perhaps I did not express my self very well. Allow me to try and restate my thesis. First, a definition. When I speak of legitimation, I do not mean to...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Jul 16, 2010 10:22 pm
Stephen, I believe you earlier expressed yourself very well, and your additional comments are useful for understanding the Thai reality. Thanks. Ambiguity,...
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sae57
Jul 19, 2010 1:17 am
Gary, thank you for forcing me to clarify. I address first what seems to me the most glaring hole in my argument: how and why the increasing efficacy of the...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Jul 19, 2010 5:28 pm
Stephen, Thanks. I now understand a lot better. It's a clear argument to me now. I'm very interested in keeping up with available, reliable news on events in...
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sae57
Jul 20, 2010 6:27 am
Gary, I have little argument with your take. I especially like: G: the entire land becomes a crucible of social-evolutionary competitions for modeling the...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Jul 23, 2010 10:32 pm
*Presuming* that human dignity matters /fundamentally/, why is this so? With this question in mind, I'll read Habermas' new essay on the concept of human...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Jul 24, 2010 2:57 am
Thanks again to Thomas Gregersen's blog (http://habermas-rawls.blogspot.com/). He alerted me to the upcoming appearance of Habermas' essay on the concept of...
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sae57
Aug 8, 2010 2:02 am
The Phalang Prachachon -- People Power Party (PPP), /not/ the Puea Thai Party, as I wrote, led the first government after the last elections and was...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Aug 29, 2010 7:50 pm
by Todd Hedrick paperback Stanford UP, June 2010 Amazon.com / U.S. listingbelow. Hedrick studied with Habermas and McCarthy at NWU. book description: This book...
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Matthew
matthew_pisc...
Sep 27, 2010 2:00 pm
Dear Gary and very esteemed Habermasian colleagues, With your indulgence, I'd like to alert you to a current project on which I am working....we are seeking to...
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Matthew
matthew_pisc...
Oct 3, 2010 4:05 am
Dear Habermas Group members, first, thank you so much Gary for posting this information. Yesterday, I spent 12 hours as an observer to what I can only describe...
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Gary E. Davis
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Oct 29, 2010 3:34 pm
An article by Habermas in today's NY Times: "Leadership and Leitkultur" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/opinion/29Habermas.html [Non-text portions of this...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Nov 8, 2010 4:51 am
I expect that my subject line seems eccentric. However, James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard scholar of American intellectual pragmatism, has just published _Reading...
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Michael Handelman
mhandelman1
Nov 8, 2010 7:45 am
I'm not an expert on Habermas, but here are some thoughts: 1) If Obama was adopting a Habermasian perspective, wouldn't the correct thing to do, would be to...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Nov 9, 2010 5:01 pm
Michael, Thanks for your thoughts. You rightly imply that applying Habermasian interests or views to issues of an actual administration would involve much...
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Matthew
matthew_pisc...
Nov 10, 2010 3:08 pm
Dear List, Although a minor academic, I am increasingly concerned at the lack of access our colleagues in developing/non-western contexts have to the most...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Nov 10, 2010 3:58 pm
Re: MattP, "Intellectual Property" Matt, Provide some detail about one specific example of your apparent presumption of "academic hegemony." Putting library...
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Alastair
alastair.kemp
Nov 17, 2010 3:01 pm
There seems to be an assumption in the original argument here too of the uneven flow of information, one acknowledged long before mobile and internet...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Nov 17, 2010 3:38 pm
Re: Alastair Kemp, "Re: Work for wider access to online resources" Alastair, Good point, to think of subaltern studies, which associates to the modern...
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Matthew
matthew_pisc...
Nov 18, 2010 3:37 pm
Dear Gary and Alistair, I take on board both of your points. It's an interesting "conditional". It's a sort of reasoning that seeks to overlook the malady I...
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Alastair
alastair.kemp
Nov 18, 2010 3:37 pm
If we accept, that to a large part, for many reasons some more obvious than others, including basic concepts such as lingua franca, that the developed world...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Nov 19, 2010 3:50 am
Alastair, I would agree with you that the relationship between developed world and developing world academics is elusive, though I'm unsure that your concern...
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Matthew
matthew_pisc...
Nov 19, 2010 8:08 am
Hi Gary (and Alistair), re Gary's comments - "i.e., "academic hegemony"). Perhaps you were speaking carelessly (as Alastair wrote carelessly) and meant to...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Nov 19, 2010 4:03 pm
re: Matt, "Re: developing-world academics and subaltern studies Matt, You seem to confuse the business of publishing/distributing content with the editorial...
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Matthew
matthew_pisc...
Nov 26, 2010 6:44 pm
Hi Gary, I take on board positively "most" of what you have written. And, for what it is worth, your access to such figures that suggest a more pluralist...
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Gary E. Davis
ensitation
Nov 26, 2010 10:34 pm
Matt, I'm unsure what your motive was in the first place, complaining about "academic hegemony." Do you have a paper that you're having trouble getting...
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Matthew
matthew_pisc...
Nov 27, 2010 6:36 pm
Dear Gary and List, ... Thanks for asking...no things are fine on this front; managing quite well in terms of building a publishing track record. My initial...
