Some of the webpage discussions below (beginning with “reason for democracy,” after a selective list of blog posts) are more practically-oriented (•) than others which are theoretical (•) or that tend to become very conceptual (•). I should say that these discussions are not expository (except the first one, “reason for democracy”), but a good sense of Habermasian thinking results (if I may say so). Note that one item here is a link to 13 other discussions: “discursive stances.”

Some blog postings which are especially focused on Habermas are highlighted here. The first ones here are most introductory; the last two are least introductory. 30 other postings which aren’t listed here, but are very relatedly Habermasian—directly and indirectly, theoretically and practically—are linked at the end of this listing: “a manifold of interfaces...,” which covers six years (not Yahoo Group postings).

• Habermas as philosopher | August 2018
• Interview of Habermas on philosophy’s missions | October 2015
• looking back: Habermas and “lifeworld” | April 2011
• Teleological aspects are part of any action | August 2013
• philosopher acting as public intellectual | September 2016
• communicative community: the basis of good systems | May 2014
• Habermas and the global metropolitan lattice | March 2017
• Habermas and the international EU as it is | April 2014
• Habermas’ “...Detranscendentalized ‘Use of Reason’” | March 2014
• thinking after Habermas | December 2010
•• a manifold of interfaces as a manifold appropriativity: 30 postings | 2005—2011

Believe it or not, all of this—postings, conceptual discourse, practical discourse—can be shown to conceptually cohere rigorously. But systematic presentation hasn’t been my intent here (yet). These are reports from the field, so to speak, showing how I think “with” Habermas: practically, yet very conceptually in terms of his work, yet also differently—which I’ve called differential identification. This entire set of discussions could be aptly titled “philosophy after Habermas,” in the double sense of ‘after’: in light of and moving on.

At the bottom of the page is a listing of other postings that began at the Facebook/Habermas project and moved to revised form in a blog. These aren’t merely links to “other resources from the Facebook project.” I hope that topical postings show good reason for regarding “theory” (integrative conceptuality?) as valuable—good reason for later moving “up” to theory—and also are examples of post-theoretical value or shared ground (moving “down” to so-called “making a difference”). I do what I can to exemplify a “manifold of interfaces.”