* oh dear...

"...but the Habermas-Derrida declaration praises the WTO and even the International Monetary Fund as part of Weltinnenpolitik: maddeningly hard to translate, but something like "global domestic policy" or "external internal policy"..."

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"Habermas is the chief heir of the Frankfurt school, a peculiar but greatly admired Marxist tradition, which included T.W. Adorno (Habermas's teacher). In this article, Habermas does allude in passing to Adorno's own critique of the Enlightenment, which was much less extreme than Derrida's.

In the past few decades, Habermas's politics can hardly be distinguished from those of any other constitutionalist, liberal social-democrat. He is no longer a 1960s radical, and he has taken in major public controversies about German history as the leading voice of conventional, respectable thought.

After all, Marxism is a rationalist or would-be-rational, modernizing ideology, in spite of some murky, interesting origins in the depths of German philosophy." [?]

Some things just seem impossible to express/receive without a tainting skew...


* Habermas-Derrida interview - has been circulated amongst us before...