Arendt’s Human Condition prompted Habermas’s Aristotelian reframing of Critical Theory.

Evidence

Prompted by Hannah Arendt’s 1958 study The Human Condition, Habermas took the Aristotelian distinction between and as a focus for a progressively more precise formulation of his social theory and his clarification of the status of Critical Theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 591

Categorization

  • XREF: Links to the Frankfurt School’s fraught relationship with both Arendt and Aristotle’s praxis/poiesis distinction discussed elsewhere. — connects to: Arendt’s The Human Condition reshaped Habermas’s social theory around Aristotelian distinctions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2384
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Arendt’s The Human Condition reshaped Habermas’s social theory around Aristotelian distinctions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2384

Broader Connections