>This is the sort of argument which I have elsewhere argued _does_ make a
>difference -- Miles has articulated with great precision what I already
>thought but didn't know, in these terms, that I thought. In particular,
>I don't think (in the 21st century) it is possible to use the word or
>concept of rationality except as shorthand for rational calculation.
>This statement would seem to be a good primary premise to start out from
>for any consideration of rationality over the last few centuries.
Funny, isn't this exactly what Foucault said?
Lacking a normative foundation, everything slides off into Machiavelli's lap. The proletariat may as well slit their throats now, because there is no hope for them, or anyone one else.
People, you can't criticize ideology without a normative foundation.
I have to get myself a bumper sticker and a car to go along with this; "End the 'end of ideology thesis' now!" ken