Thanks Gary, you are awesome! I have been thrown a bit off-track lately, but will come back full throtle soon. The question that threw me off-balance was 'is...
... inquiry" ... Z> Is it possible to reconceptulize groupware using a Habermasian lens of rationality and norms?' .... we might be able to 'scale down'...
It occurs to me that Habermas's longrunning critical relationship to Nicholas Luhmann's systems thinking would be relevant to giving group decision support ...
Thanks for this Gary. G:"Communication deserves to be defined to include the cellular level of life as well as the organismal level of intelligent indication,...
Hi All: I'm new to this group. And it's quite interesting to find such a serious discussion group about Habermas! I am currently doing a Master's thesis in...
In a message dated 6/19/2004 1:06:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Management Science? Are you also referring to organizational development and transformation....
... listserve? Dear Fred, You're quite welcome to discuss Habermas via the Yahoo! group here that you do subscribe to. I should add that Richard and I have...
You are absolutely right to say management science refers to organizational development and transformation. More precisely, it studies social phenomena in a...
Fred and Richard, The above subject line---or something like it---is better than "Digest Number 39" (which is why I responded to Fred by putting his subject...
In a message dated 6/20/2004 1:48:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I am not sure that this substitutes for an understanding of Luhmann's theory, nor for the...
Hi Gary: The way you talked about leadership that fosters "good" organisations is exactly one of the difficulties I have now. You are absolutely Habermasian to...
Richard, I'm surprised to read that: R> Asfar as I know, there is a whole lot of research in management science and information systems that use various...
In a message dated 6/26/2004 12:53:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... This is too speculative. May I point your attention to Pages 306-311 (309) and following...
... Hi, Fred. I'm happy to see you direct attention to Habermas and _TCA_ (rather than back to Marx). I'll respond substantively when I can (and more neatly;...
... Back to your comments, Fred: G>>... Organizations that have enlightened structures and embody enlightened policies, purposes, staffing models, etc., are...
Two apparently very worthwhile essays on Habermas “Farewell to Justification: Habermas, Human Rights, and Universalist Morality” Abdel-Nour F. Philosophy &...
This is a response to Raul Rodriguez, posting from Argentina. I expect that most subscribers will be interested in the last part of my response, which focuses...
Below is a link to abstracts of 25 recent applications of Habermas's work that I consider progressive, contemporary in focus, and sometimes very unique, ...
First sent to moderator rather than to habermas@yahoogroups.com ... Hello, I am a research asistant in University and doing my doctoral thesis. In fact I am...
Hello, On framing a thesis around emancipation, anarchy and the internet... It's a huge subject that requires an intimate knowledge of Habermas's 'Theory of ...
Dear Richard, I am a PhD Student at UEA, UK. I am also exploring ideas of Habermas as potential philosophical ground for my research. I like the way you are...
Habermas strongly endorses David Held's new book, _Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus_, Polity Press, 2004 ...
The full "White (1995)" reference is: John S. Dryzek, "Critical Theory as a Research Program." 97-119 in Stephen K. White, ed., _The Cambridge Companion to...
I came across the following from the closing paragraphs of JH's lecture "The Idea of the University" (citation follows the quote), while going through old...
In _The Green State: rethinking democracy and sovereignty_ (MIT Press 2004, paperback), Robyn Eckersley "work[s] toward a distinctly green theory of the...
I am working my way slowly through Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. On p. 18 (Polity Press, 1991, Vol. 1) Habermas reaches a crux in his demonstration...
In a message dated 7/21/2004 5:13:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, habermas@yahoogroups.com writes: At any rate, I am wondering how, in such a discussion in an...