...capable of interpreting its life as something good? The revenge of a culture exploited over millennia for the legitimation of domination would then take this...finally well established — would necessarily become desolate. Benjamin comes dose to wresting the reproach of empty reflection from the counter-enlightenment...

...capable of interpreting its life as something good? The revenge of a culture exploited over millenia for the legitimation of domination would then take this form: right at the moment of overcoming age-old repression, it would harbor no violence but it would have no content either. 24 Because his theory...

...will and yet be robbed of the light in which it is capable of interpreting life as something good? ... Right at the moment of overcoming age-old repressions,...concerned, the structures of practical discourse - finally well-established would necessarily become desolate. ("Consciousness-Raising," p. 158) In developing...

...capable of interpreting its life as something good? The revenge of a culture exploited over millennia for the legitimation of domination would then take this...those semantic energies with which Benjamin's rescuing critique was concerned, the structures of practical discourse — finally well established — would...

...capable of interpreting its life as something good? The revenge of a culture exploited over millennia for the legitimation of domination would then take this...no violence, but it would have no content either." 4 As a consequence of this, Habermas has come to limit the relevance of the "ideal speech situation"...

...capable of interpreting its life as something good? The revenge of a culture exploited over millennia for the legitimation of domination would then take this...finally well established — would necessarily become desolate. (WB, 158) Thus Habermas acknowledges the insight contained in Benjamin's critique of those...

...capable of interpreting its life as something good? The revenge of a culture exploited over millennia for the legitimation of domination would then take this...finally well established— would necessarily become desolate. Benjamin comes close to wresting the reproach of empty reflection from the counter-enlightenment...

...capable of interpreting its life as something good? The revenge of a culture exploited over millennia for the legitimation of domination would then take this...would harbor no violence, but it would have no content either.36 Social justice - to paraphrase Habermas - is no substitute for social happiness. And here...

...something good? . . . Without the influx of those semantic energies with which Benjamin's rescuing critique was concerned, the structures of practical discourse...finally well established — would necessarily become desolate.8 This question is much more pertinent today than could be foreseen in 1972 when Habermas...