habermas on cultural appropriation of tradition by critique, in his classic 'legitimation crisis'pic.twitter.com/yHYU0ULDxV
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Habermas was the pointman in the 70s and 80s in stealing rightwing ideas and laundering them as pinko nonsense
everything old is new
this business you’re quoting is the core of it actually - read carefully what he’s saying
not acknowledging that cultural traditions may have insights that rational critiques misses. but that they can only have them insofar as they are continuous and extremely old (in effect, permanent)
so in effect he is creating a high bar, one tradition cannot possible leap over: any tradition’s response to a new situation will be discontinuous with it’s ordinary, older responses, and can then be disqualified on those grounds
is habermas sympathetic to any traditions concerning god, folk, family? no of course not - these norms have changed over the past century, that’s not *really* a tradition, why in many ways my bolshevist opinions are more traditional than that... it’s venom
I’m not sure why you read this as reactionary. “Danger” doesn’t entail harm, just the potential for bad actors to exploit the crisis. It strikes me as an accurate description of how the conservative movement took hold in America
(Of course I grant Habermas isn’t a political radical and was criticized for that contemporaneously with LC)
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