Capitalist modernization selectively overrides the lifeworld’s original communicative structures

Evidence

It was intended to provide the normative basis and the fundamental conceptual framework for the programme, sketched out at the close of the two volumes, for an updated critical theory of society: a programme of interdisciplinary research into the selective pattern of capitalist modernization that had led to the collision between the imperatives of the economic and political system, on the one hand, and the original communicative structures of the lifeworld, on the other. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 693

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies Habermas’s core mechanism: a selective pattern of modernization produces a collision between system imperatives and lifeworld communicative structures.
• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s earlier Frankfurt School notes on Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action.