Habermas on Freedom and Responsibility

Hey Gardeners, Check out the recent issue of Philosophical Explorations.  Habermas has chimed in on the topics of freedom and responsibility.  The volume includes an introduction by Joel Anderson, and critical comments from the likes of Randy Clarke, Michael Quante, John Searle, and Tim Schroeder.  It wraps up with Habermas replying to critics.  Here is the link (though one needs a subscription to gain access):

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g774762416~db=all

Comments

[Dillon]

Thanks for posting this. I haven't had a chance to read Habermas's article yet, but I'm really curious to see how Habermas construes the issues. It has always struck me that critical theorists in the Frankfurt School tradition have not directly addressed (or even wrestled with) the issues which analytic philosophers of agency and free will have attempted to sort out. To my mind anyone who is interested in a broadly construed topic of liberation, regardless of whether or not they consider themselves a part of the Marxist tradition, would only benefit from such an engagement. For instance, in reading Dialectic of Enlightenment, it seems that Horkheimer and Adorno opperate with a tacit assumption of agency-- though it's not explictly fleshed out, nor is it obviously coherent. I'm sure there's a book topic here somewhere... (Though in my ignorance, perhaps it's already been written).

[John Fischer]

So we have: Frankfurt School Meets Frankfurt-Examples!!!