The New Constellation and the French Revolution

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Wed Jul 28 15:44:06 PDT 1999


On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, ken wrote:


> Habermas has the lifeworld, the background consensus
> fastened together by the spellbinding power of the sacred.
> Gadamer has miracles. Durkheim has glue. Weber has
> rationalization, Marx has labour, Hegel has Geist, Castoriadis
> has imagination...

No, no, capital has *us*. Distinguishing the subject (a.k.a. identity) from the object (a.k.a. the commodity-form) means, as Adorno put it, deciphering the preponderance of the object.

-- Dennis



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