>At 05:03 PM 7/28/01 -0700, Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
> Habermas'communicative rationalism is the Central European flip side of
>Derrida's telecommunicatory idealism; both have interesting things to say
>about certain local features of Eurocapital, but don't give us anything
>approaching Bourdieu's global habitus and field, e.g.
>
>- -- Dennis
probably because that's not his project.
Critical theory does not exhaust itself with Habermas's reconstruction of historical materialism to _include_ not only the human capacity for labor but the human capacity for language. On that he's always been clear. His aim is an historically oriented analysis of contemporary society with a practical, political intent:
aesthetic theory isn't what he is up to. he's interested in the foundations of social theory, in reconstructing historical materialism, in social science metatheoretics, in moral theory and in culture in terms of of socialization. he's after the ways in which selves are related to others, to institutions and practices and the social. bourdieu's theory does not account for the latter as far as i know. kelley
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