American pragmatism functioned as a democratic variant of the philosophy of praxis.

Evidence

During his years in Heidelberg, Habermas had studied the American pragmatists at the suggestion of his friend Karl-Otto Apel, and had learned to value their work as a democratic, American variant of the philosophy of praxis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 599

Categorization

• XREF: Connects Apel and Peirce/Dewey reception into the Frankfurt tradition. — connects to: The philosophy of praxis originates as materialism perfected by and fused with humanism.; Habermas radicalized Popper’s critical rationalism via American pragmatism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417
• QUESTION: How did Apel’s pragmatist reading shape the later universal-pragmatics turn?
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The philosophy of praxis originates as materialism perfected by and fused with humanism.; Habermas radicalized Popper’s critical rationalism via American pragmatism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417