Jeff Rubard
2010-01-31 22:26:11 UTC
Meadian Variations, December 5, 2003
By Jeffrey Rubard (Beaverton, OR US) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Although you'd hardly know it by looking at recent sales, Axel Honneth
is one of the world's major intellectuals; and has perhaps the most
advanced sensibility in social theory today, as evidenced by this book
and his earlier *Critique of Power*. Both are crisp, lucid expositions
of themes drawn both from classic sociology and German Idealism.
Honneth has done much to "re-sociologize" the work of the *second*
Frankfurt School workgroup. Here he follows the lead of Hans Joas and
treats George Herbert Mead as a substantive social theorist rather
than a "pragmatic" wish-fulfiller; and this according to the
principles of *ego psychology*.
In the 80s and 90s ego psychologists were scorned as psychological
"River Rouge workers", but worse things have existed -- and
furthermore, the principles of ego psychology provide a firm grounding
for discussing questions of desert and other "normativities" found in
moral discourse. Which discourse perhaps ordinarily obeys a none-too-
transparent logic, a question raised by the recent work of Martha
Nussbaum and Amartya Sen on "welfare economics" outside questions of
political desert; and Honneth's none-too-opaque constructions provide
a solid grounding for raising necessary question the legitimacy of
socialist strategies still obsessed with unclear questions of
"micropower".
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Six Years After: I guess I /would/ say [and effectively /am/ - Ed.]
that /A. Honneth's/ prose-poem on "materialist Hegelianism" is a very
*sound* "propadeutic" to the questions that might interest the
students of discourse -- 'another's joy' is, and is not, /yours/ as an
individual coming to be --
"Where it was, so shall I be" registers the *indeterminéé* character
of 'incorporation' of affects-and-pathés into the human self as it
exists /nach Sapienz/ -- and thusly the "net effect" of what is
OBVIOUSLY such a good boy is more or less -- "what proves this"
*incoepit* [!!] -- and the Sour Hereafter brings the non-*marícon*
roughly All The Discourse they Can Pay For. An "inducement" to logic,
'we' might say.
By Jeffrey Rubard (Beaverton, OR US) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Although you'd hardly know it by looking at recent sales, Axel Honneth
is one of the world's major intellectuals; and has perhaps the most
advanced sensibility in social theory today, as evidenced by this book
and his earlier *Critique of Power*. Both are crisp, lucid expositions
of themes drawn both from classic sociology and German Idealism.
Honneth has done much to "re-sociologize" the work of the *second*
Frankfurt School workgroup. Here he follows the lead of Hans Joas and
treats George Herbert Mead as a substantive social theorist rather
than a "pragmatic" wish-fulfiller; and this according to the
principles of *ego psychology*.
In the 80s and 90s ego psychologists were scorned as psychological
"River Rouge workers", but worse things have existed -- and
furthermore, the principles of ego psychology provide a firm grounding
for discussing questions of desert and other "normativities" found in
moral discourse. Which discourse perhaps ordinarily obeys a none-too-
transparent logic, a question raised by the recent work of Martha
Nussbaum and Amartya Sen on "welfare economics" outside questions of
political desert; and Honneth's none-too-opaque constructions provide
a solid grounding for raising necessary question the legitimacy of
socialist strategies still obsessed with unclear questions of
"micropower".
-----
Six Years After: I guess I /would/ say [and effectively /am/ - Ed.]
that /A. Honneth's/ prose-poem on "materialist Hegelianism" is a very
*sound* "propadeutic" to the questions that might interest the
students of discourse -- 'another's joy' is, and is not, /yours/ as an
individual coming to be --
"Where it was, so shall I be" registers the *indeterminéé* character
of 'incorporation' of affects-and-pathés into the human self as it
exists /nach Sapienz/ -- and thusly the "net effect" of what is
OBVIOUSLY such a good boy is more or less -- "what proves this"
*incoepit* [!!] -- and the Sour Hereafter brings the non-*marícon*
roughly All The Discourse they Can Pay For. An "inducement" to logic,
'we' might say.