Administrative reason

[matthew piscioneri]

Jim,

>Ever see "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"?

No, but I have read Kafka :-).

>My memory may be a bit off, but it seems like Susan Buck-Morss' _The 
>Origins of
>Negative Dialectic_ related a description by members of the FS of Naziism 
>as a
>combination of irrationalism and "the reign of administrative reason,"
>"administrative reason" being, I suppose, the mechanism propogating and
>institutionalizing an essential irrationalism.

Yes, I can see the tie up between instrumental reason and administrative 
reason. After all it is pretty much Weber's analysis substantiated by H. & 
A. following the C20th European disasters of fascism and bureaucratic 
socialism.

Although a medium hue of green myself, it is problematic watching 
administrative reason asserting itself through p.c dogma (eco-politics, 
postive discrimination). It seems you can't keep a good 
dialectic/will-to-power down. Welcome to the p.c Inquisition. Who said 
quietism was a cop out?

MattP.

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