Jim, I’ve been knee-deep in Habermas*** this past week (revisiting his earlier stuff). I was wondering if your thoughts on our current predicament would change after taking into account Habermas’s thesis of “legitimation crisis.” If you haven’t read it, and can’t get it, I can send you an abridged version.
*** I apologize for citing him three times today, and for promiscuously using his formulations . When I’m that deep into thinker, I’m like Rogue from X-Men.
Well punned!
— Tony Comstock · Mar 30, 08:32 PM · #
Jim, I’ve been knee-deep in Habermas*** this past week (revisiting his earlier stuff). I was wondering if your thoughts on our current predicament would change after taking into account Habermas’s thesis of “legitimation crisis.” If you haven’t read it, and can’t get it, I can send you an abridged version.
*** I apologize for citing him three times today, and for promiscuously using his formulations . When I’m that deep into thinker, I’m like Rogue from X-Men.
— JA · Mar 31, 03:01 AM · #
Thanks, Tony.
JA:
I wrote this in National Review last February, and it has sometimes been cited in relating our current siutation to the idea of legitimation crisis.
— Jim Manzi · Mar 31, 01:24 PM · #