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More importantly all come to the table with equal footing on the global playing field. He describes an ideal speech situation in which all participants play equal parts as listener and speaker. Habermas gives the simple explanation of failed communicative situations and an imbalance of national wealth as the roots of terrorist violence. The situation proposed by Habermas is both naively optimistic and unfortunately unrealistic. The naive optimism of my contemporariesaside, it is my belief that we do not have the language nor the will to battle such a foe.
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The West is at this point presented with an enemy that we cannot converse with, strike at, or even truly face in the traditional sense. A discussion of some main points of Habermas and Derrida will help to explain my own views on the matter and show that mine is the only realistic position. The event itself, a return to a history that had been considered finished and done with, has re-illuminated the role of the philosopher in this modern global world. The recent events of 9/11 and the Suicide of the Twin Towers have been discussed by myself and several of my fellow students in Professor Blamey's Contemporary Philosophy Seminar in recent months. Elizabeth Rard (Writing in the voice of Jean Baudrillard)
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