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. ...
re: Peter, "re: the linguistic a priori (an addenum to"a note about meaning")" P> Dear Gary, Matt and others [,re:] [snip] G>> Without linguistic relativism,...
Gary, List: [I have merged two posts here. Apologies for any thematic repetition]. From the outset it is probably useful for me to indicate how I understand...
Matt, I'm just acknowledging that I've read your backgrounding prospectus and reactions to what I replied, very enjoyably. I look forward to replying...
Peter, thanks for the post. It made me realize that Habermas's "rejection" of linguistic behaviourism would also be connected to its scientistic tendencies,...
Matt, Taking for granted all my appreciation and enjoyment of your discussion (please), I believe I see the problem why you mistakenly read transcendentalism...
Matt, I was earlier interested in why you thought that there was a "persistent transcendentalism" in Habermas' thought which allegedly undermines his claim to...
Dear Gary and Matt, Thanks for your interesting postings. My present intervention is very limited but does not imply my not appreciating the rest which I have...
Ali, your points are very constructive for me. I want to first indicate my belief that Matt is not being a sloppy reader! Matt’s misreading importantly...
Subscriber Richard.W. today unsubscribed, which inspired the following, in view of his deep engagement with Jungian thought (he expressed in his postings, some...
Gary, In the interests of more manageable exchanges I will try and be concise and "productive" in the sense of furthering our engagement with Habermas's work: ...
Matt, Let me make a quick reply---an appreciation--and get back to some other issues after I hear from you further. I don't presently feel any disagreement...
Gary, Thanks for the quick and as always thought provoking reply. The following addresses in a different way some points from your previous post to your last...