[lit-ideas] Re: Habermas, The Lure of Technocracy
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 21:43:14 +0000 (UTC)
but then should we multiply nations beyond necessity?>
Should we multiply the applications of Occam's Razor beyond necessity?
Dnl
On Friday, 9 October 2015, 21:47, "dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In a message dated 10/9/2015 10:25:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The least flashy of Walter Russell Mead’s categories is the Hamiltonians.
They don’t inspire, they don’t advocate fighting wars, they don’t try to
convert anyone – well, they sort-of do.
Interesting, and the rest of the commentary too.
For the record, the contents of Habermas's book in full, below. -- with
their attending implicatures (b)!
Part I: The Lure of Technocracy
Essay 1
The Lure of Technocracy: A Plea for European Solidarity
Essay 2
European Citizens and European Peoples: The Problem of Transnationalizing
Democracy
Essay 3
Keywords on a Discourse Theory of Law and of the Democratic Constitutional
State 46
Part II:
European Conditions. Continued Interventions
Essay 4 The Next Step–An Interview
Essay 5
The Dilemma Facing the Political Parties
Essay 6:
Three Reasons for ‘More Europe’
Essay 7:
Democracy or Capitalism? On the Abject Spectacle of a Capitalistic World
Society Fragmented along National Lines
Part III: German Jews, Germans and Jews
Essay 8:
Jewish Philosophers and Sociologists as Returnees in the Early Federal
Republic of Germany: A Recollection
Essay 9:
Martin Buber–A Philosophy of Dialogue in its Historical Context
Essay 10:
Our Contemporary Heine: ‘There are No Longer Nations in Europe’
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(b)
Part I: The Lure of Technocracy
Essay 1
The Lure of Technocracy: A Plea for European Solidarity.
--- Well, this is the second book I am aware of with 'lure' in its title:
the other is about the 'lure' of classical sculpture, by two Oxonian
authors. Geary should know of others.
Essay 2
European Citizens and European Peoples: The Problem of Trans-nationalizing
Democracy
It seems Habermas is playing on the implicatures of 'citizen' and 'people'.
The idea of a 'trans-nation' is an interesting one, but Habermas uses it
as a verb: a democracy is trans-nationalised, and this poses a problem,
apparently, for Habermas. If we say a democracy has trans-nationalised, it
means it has crossed one nation and arrived at another. He gives examples!
Essay 3
Keywords on a Discourse Theory of Law and of the Democratic Constitutional
State
"A discourse theory of law" is NOT H. L. A. Hart's theory, but I won't be
surprised if Habermas discussed Hart (Habermas discussed Grice in pretty
good detail).
Part II:
European Conditions. Continued Interventions
Essay 4 The Next Step – An Interview
The problem with interviews is that the implicature is triggered by the
question, rather than the utterance itself! Hence the most odious of questions
in all interviews: "What question would you like asked?"
Essay 5
The Dilemma Facing the Political Parties
--- The dilemma seems solvable, as opposed to a problem which for Witters
would be unsolvable because pseudo. If the reductio ad absurdum of a dilemma
is carried on, it may be a challenge to the very concept 'political party'
(cfr. the implicature: "Oh, he is not a Republican -- nor a Democrat -- he
is running as an 'independent'").
Essay 6:
Three Reasons for ‘More Europe’
"Europe" is a bit like 'pizza'. Zeno Vendler would call it a mass-noun. The
opposite is LESS EUROPE, not fewer Europe. Europa, of course, was a
feminine proper name back in the day, but we don't use "more" with proper
names
usually -- but cfr. "More Marilyn Monroe".
Essay 7:
Democracy or Capitalism? On the Abject Spectacle of a Capitalistic World
Society Fragmented along National Lines
"Abject" seems a pretty subjective adjective? Or is it 'spectacle' that is
subjective?
Part III: German Jews, Germans and Jews
As opposed to Part I, which echoes Essay I, Part III has no specific essay
whose title it echoes.
Essay 8:
Jewish Philosophers and Sociologists as Returnees in the Early Federal
Republic of Germany: A Recollection
By "Jewish" he means "German-Jew" -- Cfr. "The hyphenated America".
Habermas is just buying that theory and applying it to Deutschland.
Essay 9:
Martin Buber–A Philosophy of Dialogue in its Historical Context
I LOVE Buber's philosophy of dialogue! And it NEEDS a historic context (I
don't say 'historical' after Geary told me that the '-al' is "allways
otiose").
Essay 10:
Our Contemporary Heine: ‘There are No Longer Nations in Europe’
Heine (our contemporary Heine) is implicating that there were: The Alba
Longans, for example, and the Romans, and the Etrurians, and the Latins, and
... but then should we multiply nations beyond necessity?
Cheers
Speranza
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