Endless Transition and/or the End of Haiti’s Nation-State

“But then, how can one reasonably expect that we take a stand against ominous great men and against their ominous consequences?” (Jürgen Habermas, in Philosophical and Political Profiles, Karl Jaspers, p.

Pierre-Raymond DUMAS
05 Feb 2026 — Lecture : 5 min.
Endless Transition and/or the End of Haiti’s Nation-State

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“But then, how can one reasonably expect that we take a stand against ominous great men and against their ominous consequences?”
(Jürgen Habermas, in Philosophical and Political Profiles, Karl Jaspers, p. 141, Gallimard 1974 for the French translation, reissued 1987)

Haiti’s central problem, in my view—as someone who has devoted several hundred pages to the incompatibility between parliamentary democracy and poverty against a backdrop of illiteracy—is that the country has already p

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