[lit-ideas] Re: Reason and Politics
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:42:14 -0330
That would be great Judy.
Walter O.
MUN
Quoting Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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> <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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