>>> <kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> 03/23/00 05:24PM >>
Following Gates Jr., we need to make sure that the First Amend. is
backed by the Fourteen Amend (speaking USese).
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CB: And equally we must make sure that the 13th and 14th Amendments are BACKED ( as in behind) by the First Amendment.
CB
Benhabib calls this communicative ethics, Habermas calls it deliberative democracy, Arendt refers to an "enlarged mentality" Kant speaks of "reflective judgement" Castoriadis gives it the name "the project of autonomy" Salecl might use the term "politics of impossibility" Gilroy the "politics of transfiguration" and Zizek "ethics of the real" - whatever you want to call it --> it's about sustaining dialogue, which includes incorporating all of the elements (political, economic and so on) that make dialogue sustainable. There are no set "grammatical rules" or "illocutionary performatives" that are *essentially* hateful. Ban one sentence and someone will just write another ad infini-nauseum. The point is to change the way we think about things, call it "returning the gaze" or the "preponderance of the object" or "traversing fantasy" - it amounts to something similar.
ken
"Nothing is more detestable to wisdom than too much subtlety." - E. A. Poe (falsely attributed to Seneca)
PS. apologies for the mis-subject heading on my last post - that's H. L. Gates, Jr. not H. G. Gates, Jr.