Americans Protest NATO'S War in Yugoslavia -- June 5, 1999
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"Our modern revelation may be a depressing revelation, but at least it is a demythologizing revelation. If the world is terrible, at least we know that our fathers were fools to think otherwise, and that everything they believed and cherished was a lie, or at best superstition" (Hilary Putnam, Human Face, p.136).
"If we believe in the creative effect of contact and collision, connection and exchange, then we require a medium, a way of writing which will live with the impact and conflict of communication between ideas" (Myerson, Rhetoric, Reason and Society, 1994:4).
From: Susana
Date: 9/12/99
Time: 4:14:39 PM
Remote Name: 24.4.252.69
Thank you for your thoughtful comments and summary of major arguments. I want to clarify that part of the reason Myerson is moving beyond Habermas is that he feels that Habermas in engaged in a static monologic debate. It's not moving forward. I have problem with some of these thinkers because they seem to completely disregard the role of "material conditions" in the construction of dialogic rationalism. That is part of the modernist trend.