lukacs' "antinomies of bourgeois thought", the essential bacon in history and class consciousness. from here we may argue that kantian grammar lifted modern institutions above history, thus reifying the protestant ethic and spirit of stealing of the rising bourgeoisie. a good tool vs. third tony/liberal illusions language.

habermas (kant2k) certainly appropriates kantian illusions in his supranational dreaming/militant humanism. even though we may assume that it's philosophically sounder than say kagan's twisting of hobbes, i can't see how ignoring 1804-2004 should be less elusive. after all the two seem diametrically opposed within the same rotten discourse.