Habermas vs Foucault - Is Modernity an Incomplete Project?

Here's my comparison of Habermas' "The Relationship between Theory and Practice Revisited" and Foucault's "What is Enlightenment?"

All of the quotes are from these, which can be found in Habermas' "Truth and Justification" and for Foucault "The Essential Works of Foucault Vol 1: Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth", on the following pages:
1. Foucault, p. 312.
2. Foucault, p. 313.
3. Foucault, p. 313.
4. Habermas, p. 289.
5. Habermas, p. 290.
6. Foucault, p. 319.

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[MuzakConcrete]

People should be allowed to say how they feel at a particular time. People are too afraid to commit themselves because they feel this pressure to read and read over, to do justice to the great history of philosophy. Fuck that. I'm not saying don't keep reading, but I think it's worth saying. If this guy wants to say fuck habermas then good.

[odiemarshhen]

The self indulgence of this person filming himself reading aloud, the time he took to edit it over and over and cut out anything that did not prop up his vanity further.... amazes me. No wonder so masturbatory a gesture as this results in his call for Habermas to suck his balls. Pathetic. Too hard to just write a first year paper on this topic? But then this posturing would have been rejected.

[VindigoBlue]

@odiemarshhen Hello. This is Youtube. As in YOU. As in, a website created to facilitate peoples' need for self-indulgence. So I don't know why you would expect any different. Did you ever consider that maybe some editing was done because the video is, in fact, nearly ten minutes long and needed to be shortened, and not because this guy happens to love himself so much that he just HAD to make a lovely video about his views on Foucault and Habermas so all his admirers could see? I really doubt it.

[aatishoo]

@odiemarshhen ..the guys entitled to his opinion just like you are ..i'm personally glad he posted his opinion on you tube it has helped me get a grip through some of the intellectual bullshit i have to read through for my dissertation.

[kika1767]

Where is the book? rsrs

[kika1767]

Where is the book? Please!

[TheHomoludens]

Denito, I like your message.

And I definitley dislike Habermas, with his intellectualized form of elitism, which yet explains nothing to anyone that doesn´t share the same connotations concerning his language.

Like Popper critizised: nominalism instead of essentialism - which is btw the answer to the question why there are so many "experts" who know almost "everything" about almost "nothing".

Habermas is the shit, he claims to critizise.

Keep up your work!

[barleyherb]

Marry me.

[bukowski1912]

IGNORANT



[MrVitaactiva]

I think your reading of Habermas is a bit simplistic. But despite that, I do agree with you on how we should face contemporary problems. Like Foucault, we have to rethink and problematize modern practices by examining their historical contingencies. We have to analyze the conditions of the possibility of thought in order to rethink their application in the contemporary - specifically, with medical practice, psychiatry, prisons, law, and social science - well, "science" in general.

[timetochilli]

post modernism fucked us up foucalt is one of dem dumb nietchean dick blackmail? he has never read hthe enlightement philosophers he can never read them the enlightenment was supressed stop creating the "other" and blaming shit on them if we grasped the enlightenment then fully and not listened to dumb post modernist idiots we would of got to better places how fitting that things got even worse after the post modern period!