Habermas is dead. I remember his clash with Rudi Dutschke at Berlin Vietnam Congress in February 1968. Condolences to his daughter Judith who worked at Verso for a while. Below a small extract from Perry Anderson's essay on the military philosophers in New Left Review:
"Habermas grew up in a small Rhenish town under Hitler. His father joined the Nazi party in 1933, and Habermas himself briefly took part in defensive work with the Hitlerjugend at the end of the war. After discovering the realities of the Third Reich and breaking with Heidegger, who had been his first major influence, Habermas became the major philosophical descendant of the Frankfurt School, absorbing its distinctive transformations of Marx, and then in turn criticizing these in the light of American pragmatism and systems theory. Intellectually heir to the totalizing ambitions of German idealism, scarcely any major philosophical tradition has fallen outside the range of his interests, in which sociology—classical and contemporary—has also occupied a central place. As a political thinker, the pattern of Habermas’s writing reverses that of Rawls, whom he has criticized for his inappropriately substantive intentions. His own political theory is purely procedural, abstaining from any programmatic proposals. On the other hand, Habermas has never hesitated to intervene politically on topical issues, adopting public positions on leading disputes of the day in Germany, as a citizen of the left. His Kleine politische Schriften now run to nine volumes, rivalling the number of Sartre’s Situations. At the same time, he has never been involved in any political organization, keeping his distance from spd and Greens alike."
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Hoy recordamos al sociólogo barranquillero Orlando Fals Borda quien luchó por integrar el conocimiento de los pueblos en la academia, considerándolo clave para la comprensión del mundo. ✊🏾🇨🇴
En #Montería custodiamos su archivo: 🔗https://t.co/VRpfbdDy8Y
This interview with Theda Skocpol is full of ideas and comments about her academic career and how to contribute to knowledge in academia. Skocpol is a model of excellence in the social sciences.
The interview can be seen here: https://t.co/j8ZFr1giV5
1. Un día como hoy pero de 1877, nació el sociólogo e historiador social Maurice Halbwachs.
En julio de 1944 fue deportado al campo de concentración Buchenwald junto a uno de sus hijos. Murió el 16 de marzo de 1945, poco antes de la liberación.
Cordialmente invitados!
“El cobarde no hace historia. Orlando Fals Borda y los inicios de la IAP” de Joanne Rappaport.
Viernes 12 marzo 3:00 pm (hora Col)
Transmisión por: https://t.co/0h6gIpALE7…
Invitan: @Banrepcultural#Montería y Grupo de Estudio IAP
#OrlandoFalsBorda
@Banrepcultural lanza el libro “El cobarde no hace historia. Orlando Fals Borda y los inicios de la investigación-acción participativa”, de Joanne Rappaport, traducido por el editor de Historia Crítica, Santiago Paredes @sparedesc. Viernes 12/03/21. Info: https://t.co/8xkzOpoGs0
Era tal la violencia en Tierralta que las calles perdieron sus números y comenzaron a ser referidas por sus muertos. “Llegas a la esquina donde mataron a Édinson y coges a la derecha”, “doblas por donde mataron al cura, ahí es”. https://t.co/J7e8uWNz25
Amo el Caribe porque está habitado por gente que le tiene más miedo al tedio que a la muerte. Y lo amo, sobre todo, porque no se encuentra en la geografía sino en mi alma. Adonde vaya lo llevo conmigo como el caracol a su casa. https://t.co/5Ob5gwfVq4