[lit-ideas] Re: Reason and Politics
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:05:36 +0100
Miller's piece isn't the kind of thing you want (I'd say; I heard
him
give it but haven't read the published version), it addresses 2
papers
by Young and someone else on minorities, modes of discourse,
and deliberative democracy.
to give a
> talk defending Habermas from his pomo, feminist
post-colonialist critics.
I don't really see Young as a postmodernist (or a
postcolonialist) but I realise
many people do. Of course Benhabib isn't. But I can see why
you'd focus
on her.
I'll think about it and also see who's written what. I'm really
very
behind with the reading on this but will do what I can working
from
summaries
Judy
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> No, I don't think I've seen Miller's paper but it looks like
something I should
> take a look at before this coming May. A colleague specializing
in "whiteness
> theory" (if I got that right), seduced me over some very fine
malt to give a
> talk defending Habermas from his pomo, feminist
post-colonialist critics. Since
> a significant number of double-drams of Cragganmore hung in the
balance, I of
> course eagerly agreed. Trouble is, apart from a paper by Young
on "assymetry of
> [something or other]" a few pieces by Benhabib, and now the
citations from
> Frank's outline, I really know babkis about
> the topic. Most of my work on Habermas involves the relation
between Discourse
> Ethics, Kant's moral theory and political and moral ed.. Could
you give me the
> reference for the Miller paper? And anything else you think a
crowd of pomoists
> would expect to hear from a Kantian transcendentalist defending
Habermas? (My
> plea also goes out to the List as a whole, of course.) May
seems like a long
> ways away but between other duties and breaking in my new
Stiga/Mark V racquet,
> and deliberating upon Phil's responses to my posts on Kant
(will get to them
> soon!), May month will be here before I know it.
>
> Walter Okshevsky
> MUN
>
>
> Quoting Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > You're welcome! but I admit I have a stake in this, I taught
> > democratic
> > theory. I'm glad Frank, whose course indeed looks very good,
> > incorporates, in particular, Benhabib and Young: I began
putting
> > Young on my reading lists, and some students liked her work a
> > lot, but
> > I may have done it a bit too early.
> >
> > (I prefer Frank's approach to the "add globalization and/or
> > democratization"
> > one.)
> >
> > I posted the O'Donnell link to illustrate democratic theory's
> > many mansions.
> >
> > Having sent that then gone out for a coffee and cheesecake, I
> > spent ages pondering
> > deliberative democracy, feminist critiques of it (as it
were)....
> > do you know
> > David Miller's paper on that?
> >
> > Judy Evans, Cardiff
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:54 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Reason and Politics
> >
> >
> > > Thank you for that, Judith. Both for the reply and Frank's
> > excellent course
> > > outline.
> > >
> > > Walter Okshevsky
> > > Memorial University
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