Word: habermasian
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...family’s annual letter two holiday seasons ago, I wrote that by matriculating at Harvard, I had made a “desperate gamble to trade in four years of [my] life for the right to carelessly throw around important-sounding academic buzzwords in otherwise normal Habermasian discourse.” I think I made that phrase up, “Habermasian discourse...
Thomas B. Cotton's introduction of the Habermasian discourse-theoretic idea into a political dialogue of this nature presupposes the existential (and, for that matter, the essential) dialogues of a pre-political discursive space ("Habermas Had Descended," Dec. 5). Power and the forces that constitute power in the post-modern welfare state must have their say in any critique that attempts to synthesize the sociological with the epistemological; certainly, the post-modern ontology would seem to suggest as much. By taking up the discourse on race, Cotton also makes the mistake of intertwining alternative discourses in ways which portray them...
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