Administrative planning inadvertently politicizes private life and weakens tradition

Evidence

At every level, administrative planning produces unintended unsettling and publicizing effects. These effects weaken the justification potential of traditions that have been flushed out of their nature-like course of development. Once their unquestionable character has been destroyed, the stabilization of validity claims can succeed only through discourse. The stirring up of cultural affairs that are taken for granted thus furthers the politicization of areas of life previously assigned to the private sphere. But this development signifies danger for the civil privatism that is secured informally through the structures of the public realm. Efforts at participation and the plethora of alternative modelsespecially in cultural spheres such as school and university, press, church, theatre, publishing, etc.are indicators of this danger, as is the increasing number of citizens’ initiatives. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2712

Categorization

• XREF: The 1970s citizens’ initiatives and alternative models cited here connect to the broader New Social Movements literature and post-materialist politics (Inglehart). — connects to: Expanded state administration destabilizes cultural traditions and raises legitimation demands — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2710; The administrative state produces unpolitical citizens within a political society — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2337; Depoliticized group identity gets displaced onto and poisons private life (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Depoliticized group identity gets displaced onto and poisons private life #expands (0.80)
• Indoctrination dissolves the felt distinction between public and private policy #expands (0.80)
• Totalitarian rule extends control into the private inner life of subjects #expands (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 624
• The administrative state produces unpolitical citizens within a political society #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2337
• Culture becomes administrable precisely by being severed from practical action #expands (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 161
• Historical knowledge gets co-opted for administrative manipulation #expands (0.72)
• The modern pursuit of novelty destabilizes fixed social and legal boundaries #complicates (0.72)