Re: Hohendahl

["matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralph,
Also keen to read this book for I think Hohendahl is a perceptive
critic/interpreter.

>I think he rebelled against Habermas and preferred to return to the first
>generation.

If so interesting because in _TCA_ Habermas makes it clear this is his
objective for C.T. A return to a philosophically informed,
empirically-oriented critical theory - which has practical intention - and
that is reflective on its own socio-historical origins. Exactly what -
according to JH - the late-C.T of H. & A. failed to realize due to their
aporetic immersion in the dialectic of enlightenment etc.

Which IMO is the starting point for any critical theory of society: how it
may be inverted and end up consolidating the social order that it is
attempting to change.

Regards,

MattP

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