With reference to Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action as a branch of Critical Social Theory, how feasible will the theory be as a theoretical foundation...
Phil Carspecken seems to have built up quite a research group using critical theory as the basis for ethnographic research in education. You might want to look...
Hi, My understanding of TCA, is that it is a theory of social evolution. That is about premodern. As an OTHER to Western Modern, I always distinguish between...
re: tkhaaoal, re: "Habermas and ethnography" ... evolution. G: I, too, regard TCA as a theory of social evolution, in a sense. JH's social-philosophical...
Absolutely. I think the flexibility that Habermas' paradigm offers,especially in R.H.M.p.130-..,makes it fit for a base to reconstruct a framework for...
I am looking for some good justifications of the rationality of the truthfulness claims. To my humble mind, it is not possible to correlate expressive speech...
tkhaaoal, I'd love to respond to your posting at length, but I hope to see others participate more. I would be good to pursue such an issues relative to a...
Thank you very much for your insights. But I need some more explications to get along. My understanding of your response is that a claim about truthfulness is...
Hello. I'm writing from Portugal and I hope you're able to understand my poor English. I,ve read almost everything Habermas wrote and I think that since...
Joćo, Thank you for subscribing. I hope that this list shows more of an international memberhip. I agree with your general approach to reading _Theory of ...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08132003.html CounterPunch August 13, 2003 CounterPunch Diary World-Famous Philosopher Honderich Hit with "Anti-Semite"...
Hi Gary, Sorry for the delay in responding to your provocative (in a non- perjorative sense) post. Part of the problem has been that although I have finished...
Dear List, ... If you can excuse the manifesto-like pretensions of the following I want to develop this theme further in order to sketch (very roughly) the...
re: Matt, "Re: Re: Environmental Thinking" Matt, Your response / discussion was very good reading, both as critical *reading of* issues and as post *for*...
Well, Matt, that was real fun. I would enjoy following up on that at length. There are so many enticing ideas. But, I'm going to pass. Coincidently, the...
I would confront Ali with the same overt denial of transcendentalism by JH that I posed to you. (Ali vaguely refers to pp. 218-9 of _On the Pragmatics of ...
Gary, Re-transcendentalism in Habermas It is always beneficial to be made to think carefully about how one ... 2001 essay on "...the Detranscendentalized 'Use...
Ali, Thanks for the your clarification. However, in the posting from you (HAB.0309.24), to which I was responding (re-quoted below in your post) , your use of ...
re: Matt, "Transcendental Habermas" M> I agree with Ali, that in the first chapter of BFN Habermas confronts the charge of quasi-transcendentalism again. G:...
This is a clarification of a point in "Ultimate Habermas" ... Of course, Habermas is engaged with "limit conceptions" in some sense like the tradition is: JH>>...
Gary, Matt, I might come to this agin (if I find some time) but two quick clarficaitons.. 1) First Gary I did not say that I was taking 'transendence'...
... G: Granted. But figurative is the way that Habermas uses 'transcendence'. What is really happening when one says that a context is transcended? Habermas...
Gary, List: {Gary this ISN'T a reply to your magnum opus "Ultimate Habermas." That reply will take a day or two! The following I hope will serve to amuse int...
Gary, Ali: couldn't resist. This statement of Ali's is meaningful AND an ... Especially more so Gary, given your previous explication of "figurative"...
Re: Matt, "re:" [sort of] "Ultimate Habermas" ... reply will take a day or two! Matt, I look forward to your argumentation. I forgot to thank you for your time...
... for cultural meanings to get symbolically fixed. G: I can agree. In asking.... ... such that you're referring (in effect) to symbolic phenomena getting...
Dear Gary, Matt and others [snip] ... [snip] I was under the impression that the linguistic turn argued exactly the opposite. All that we can know is that the...
Hi Gary, agree about being selective in posts. After this exchange, I think I will try and limit posts to one issue at a time! Post to follow from 2 days ago. ...
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