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Rikard's avatar

I cannot help but think that the entartete-treatment of Habermas serves a dual purpose that's disconnected from anything he's actually said.

He's more or less a living legend in a field where the norm is that the theorist the works of whom we partake of is long-dead, so challenging him and winning (if only by un-personing and memory-holeing) is for the modern academic the equivalent of a Cro Magnon jumping on an already dead cave bear, claiming it proves his hunting prowess as his tribe comes upon the scene.

It also sends a clear and unmistakable message to all in academia or with academic backgrounds:

Even a legend can be brought low, and you're no legend so don't even think of challenging the new Führer-prinzip.

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Martin Bassani's avatar

Empire has its agenda, but German speaking world has its amnesia.

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