Habermas’s critical philosophy of science drew on both conservative and critical sources

Evidence

Habermas knew Freyer’s work, and stimuli from both the critical and the conservative sides were able to cross-fertilize in his thinking on the problem of the foundation of a critical sociology. When he took up the concept of a critical philosophy of science again, he was in touch with the latest developments in the field, and his sketchwhich he broadened over the following years in On the Logic of the Social Sciences and in Knowledge and Human Interestscontained more reality and was more attractive than that of his predecessors. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2440

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habermas sought de-alienated labor while conservative theorists sought mass habituation — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2309; Habermas’s theory of human species formation synthesized a wide range of philosophical sources — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2427; Science must produce a legitimating philosophical discourse about its own rules — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 87

Broader Connections

• Science must produce a legitimating philosophical discourse about its own rules #expands (0.72) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 87