Modernity (was Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4736)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>At 02:14 PM 8/13/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:37:45 -0400
>>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>>Subject: Re: Conscious Social Reproduction (Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #4729)
>>
>>Miles says:
>>
>>>I agree CSR is a neat idea in this social context, but is it something
>>>humans everywhere, at all times, will have to live up to in order
>>>to live in a worthwhile society?
>>
>>Though I don't know about Ken & Kelley, I doubt that Habermas makes
>>any such claim.  In so far as Habermas learned anything from Marx &
>>critical theory, he'd have to argue that conscious social
>>reproduction is a promise of modernity, hardly possible under
>>feudalism & other pre-capitalist modes of production.
>>
>>Yoshie
>
>Habermas argues that all social reproduction is, at least to some 
>degree, conscious. An unconscious society doesn't reproduce itself 
>as a society. See Legitimation Crisis, Communication and the 
>Evolution of Society, and The Theory of Communicative Action.
>
>ken

"At least to some degree," but what matters is historical difference. 
Otherwise, what's the point of Habermas's defense of modernity?

Yoshie