Democracy, Rhetoric and Performance: March 2005 Archives

Review of Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with J¸rgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida by Giovanna Borradori.

We (thankfully) postponed Habermas for a week, and I'm trying to prep for Mass Comm this afternoon - have finished Gramsci and now onto Althusser, which I did read before (last year, Li gave it to me thinking it might relate to the mentoring project, hmmmm. :-)

There's a section here that has me thinking back on the private-public debate between me and Stephen (last entry February 21).

Althusser writes: "The distinction between the public and the private is a distinction internal to bourgeois law, and valid in the (subordinate) domains in which bourgeois law exercises its 'authority'" (1971, 137).