living with "the evolving project"

Originally, the evolving project represented engagement in a post-Habermasian sense of philosophy that had been developing for many years (and continues). Habermas' great influence wasn't, isn't orienting my development, but remains an engaging textual partner.

Meanwhile, that continuing development has yielded philosophical discussions via Webpage that express episodes—lasting Moments, it seems—of mediating ongoing development (journaling Moments in a journey), but not pretending to represent (or conceptually capture) what I'm basically doing. What comprehensive conceptuality I've achieved (transitorily satisfactory, but feeling an evolutionarity) belongs to explicit work unrepresented online.

Generally, my development never was primarily Habermasian; so, claiming "post-Habermasian" engagement with Habermas' work isn't primarily a matter of distancing myself from his discursive axis (his great example of intellectual individuation), rather getting explicit about a philosophical sense of Appropriation that led me to his work in the first place. Habermas' inestimable influence on my appreciation of sociocentric thinking was never primordially sociocentric, as his thinking is (a point emphasized by him in his recent biographical comments, "Public Space and Political Public Sphere – The Biographical Roots of Two Motifs in my Thought," Between Naturalism and Religion, Polity, 2008).

Engagement with Habermasian senses of issues will continue as "the evolving project," but material posted 2004-2007 is becoming more precursory than expressive of ongoing engagements. But "the evolving project" will gain new discussions, inasmuch as Habermas' work remains engaging (which fellow Habermasians easily cause), and earlier discussions are incipient stages of topics which remain central to me for post-Habermasian work (i.e., work that remains relative to Habermas' career). My ever-genealogical self-interest will keep my Habermas-relative work conscientious about its continuity with "the evolving project." In fact, all 2004-2007 discussions have been dissected into all their themes, for further development. So, the project will develop; it'll gain new foci, a transformation of identity as assemblage of foci, if not as a concerted direction (simulating some telos of evolving).

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