Disappointment Over Nationalistic Authoritarian Regimes May Have

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.

The Speaker Must Choose A Comprehensible Expression So That Speaker And Hearer Can Understand One Another.

Instead Of The International Police Action We Had Hoped For During The War In Kosovo, There Are Wars Again - Conducted With State-of-the-art Technology, But Still In The Old Style

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.

[critical Social Science Attempts] To Determine When Theoretical Statements Grasp Invariant Regularities Of Social Action As Such And When They Express Ideologically Frozen Relations Of Dependence That Can In Principle Be Transformed.