Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:26:52 EDT
Subject: Re: [HAB:] Communicative Action in everyday contexts - the family


 
In a message dated 8/27/2004 7:37:09 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
sue-AT-mcphersons.freeserve.co.uk writes:

I think  that instead of expecting Habermas to do it all, one
could just bring other  theoretical perspectives - psychoanalysis,
for instance, or psychology, to  try to understand the dynamics
of "the family" that are present, I believe,  in probably most
social communicative  interactions.



The issue is Darwin which I do not believe can be addressed by  
psychoanalysis which could at best help individuals to cope with their loses but  is 
theoretically unable to address the problem of social domination in situ  either in 
micro or macro-sociological terms.  In this case, descriptions of  social 
reality include dominance hierarchies (role ascriptions) and the locus of  
domination in social interactional contexts.  Unless you consciously or  
unconsciously ascribe to the Darwinian theory (and how can anyone not?) and  practice both 
the unscrupulous zero-sum game of attempting to advance your own  genetic 
package at the expense of all others OR ANYONE ELSE!!! for that matter  since the 
rule is 'your loss is my gain,'  and the cultural game of  conformity to the 
appearance of fitness, then you will not be successful.   Since this approach 
includes all of those problems that we wish the Habermasian  corpus could 
resolve including racism and ethnocentrism, gender and sex role  discrimination, 
and class discrimination through the achievement of  communicative competency 
(moral and social competency), we are left to hope that  more and more 
individuals (an ever decreasing entity) achieve this  competence since what is 
naturally given to us as bodies is a ruthless  competitive attitude channeled by an 
equally ruthless apparatus!
 
Fred Welfare


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