Disappointment Over Nationalistic Authoritarian Regimes May Have

I Take As My Fundamental Starting Point The Fundamental Distinction Between Work And Interaction

I Shall Develop The Thesis That Anyone Acting Communicatively Must, In Performing Any Speech Act, Raise Universal Validity Claims And Suppose That They Can Be Vindicated.

Manhattan... Capital Of The 20th Century, A City That Has Fascinated Me For More Than Three Decades.

Osama Bin Laden, The Person, More Likely Serves The Function Of A Stand-in. Compare The New Terrorists With Partisans Or Conventional Terrorists In Israel. These People Often Fight In A Decentralized Manner In Small, Autonomous Units, Too.

Subjects Who Reciprocally Recognize Each Other As Such, Must Consider Each Other As Identical, Insofar As They Both Take Up The Position Of Subject; They Must At All Times Subsume Themselves And The Other Under The Same Category. At The Same Time, The Relation Of Reciprocity Of Recognition Demands The Non-identity Of One And The Other, Both Must Also Maintain Their Absolute Difference, For To Be A Subject Implies The Claim Of Individuation.