Adorno and Habermas split over whether universities could democratize communication

Evidence

Where Habermas saw room for a model of democratization based on the domination-free communication that took place among scholars, Adorno could not see any room for the expression of the non-identical. Where Habermas, as a critical philosopher of science, had hopes of a democratic reform of the universities, Adorno saw no hope of modern art becoming the stimulus for an enlightened enlightenment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 687

Categorization

• XREF: Maps the Adorno-Habermas fault line onto the later Habermasian theory of communicative action and the positivist dispute. — connects to: Habermas’s postwar democratic ideal was radicalized by Adorno and Marcuse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 575; Adorno diverged from Habermas by prioritizing speculative thought over political reform — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 655
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas’s postwar democratic ideal was radicalized by Adorno and Marcuse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 575; Adorno diverged from Habermas by prioritizing speculative thought over political reform — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 655