Subject: Re: HAB: Colonisation or Autopoesis - What is so Critical About Systems Theory?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:43:29 PDT


Dear List Members

Thanks to all for making Habermas more enjoyably difficult. I have 
effectively added another year on to my research program as a result of the 
postings over the last week on reading the colonisation thesis! :-)

In light of what has been said, these issues stick for me..

1.agreement that Habermas doesn't blur the ontological and methodological 
domains in his postulation of the systemworld in the TCA?

2.that the lifeworld is ontologically constituted beyond its heuristic 
formulation...i.e it has actual (material/quantifiable over) contents

3.the pathological aspect of colonisation comes as it were from within the 
lifeworld...a self-induced pathology, which is identifiable through the lens 
of a functional systems theoretic?

I don't know enough Habermas to respond with confidence to 1 or 3, and 
presume 2. I am still left wondering what exactly is the tension in Habermas 
over the relationship between theory and praxis.

Best regards all

Matthew Piscioneri



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