>>And his attack on humanism in *Order of Things* constitutes an attack on
>>the idea of emancipation (for with no 'man' to emancipate, no truth to
>>approach, no emancipation possible in light of truth's inevitable dominion,
>>well, what have we left?).
>
>The problem, of course, is that he may be right. Whatever we are, we are
>not autonomous liberal individuals a la Habermas who are to be
>"emancipated." We are something different, and historically contingent...
the other problem, of course, is that habermas doesn't think that there we are autonomous liberal individuals in the here and now or waiting to be set free to exist in some groovy utopia.
kelley