>You can spot initiates by those who slip the word "aporia" into
>their communications.
Hey, people at Yale were doing that in the early 70s, influenced by that crypto-Nazi, Paul de Man.
Doug
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/telospress/contents49.html Seyla Benhabib: Modernity and the Aporias of Critical Theory. Her book, " Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory. Columbia Univ. Press, 1986, " is excellent.
Note to Todd, if you can't find the Michael Lowy on Lukacs, I mentioned offlist, Michael Lowy: Marxism and Revolutionary Romanticism, in this issue.
Kelley and Ken and any other Habermaniacs, Axel Honneth, Eberhard Knodler-Bunte, And Arno Widmann: The Dialectics of Rationalization: An Interview with Jurgen Habermas Jurgen Habermas: New Social Movements.
Justin see, " Paul Buhle: E.P. Thompson and his Critics.Jean L. Cohen: E.P. Thompson, The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays.
It's a dreadful book by the Stratfor poobah! Russell Jacoby: George Friedman, The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School.
Plug for Jacoby, "Dialectic of Defeat:Contours of Western Marxism, " Cambridge Univ. Press. Evicerates Charles Bettelheim, Althusser and others. Unearths the legacy of figures like Korsch, Mattick, Sr. (father of Mr. Katha Pollitt. On her and Andrew Sullivan see this this thread in freeperlandia, ""Well, Your Stammering is Eloquent" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/550861/posts ) Michael Pugliese