The Division of Labour, Revisited

[kenneth.mackendrick]

Scott,

Habermas is very careful throughout all of his writing never to leave 
the dialectical method - from his work on the public sphere to 
his theory of communicative action and discourse ethics and into his 
theory of law and democracy.  The notion that he has departed this 
approach is alien to his work and his intent.  Habermas has always 
maintained - even in his harshest critique of Adorno - that what marks 
Adorno's greatness is his relentless pursuit of the aporias of 
modernity.  Habermas has not moved beyond this - although tries to 
deal with from a communicative perspective.

And - I don't think negativity, my negativity, leaves out the possibility 
of reconciliation.  If it did, it wouldn't be negativity.  Negation is 
simultaneously its contradiction.
ken