Habermas’s early large studies embodied a materialist theory promoting radically democratic thought

Evidence

The productiveness of this constellation of themes for Habermas was shown by the next two large-scale studies he wrote or co-authored: Students and Politics and The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Thanks to an unprejudiced, if not naïve, approach to the sciences, these studies seemed to be seriously concerned with the programme of a materialist theory of societyinspired towards radically democratic thinking by the utopian and messianic ideas of Critical Theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2330

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Habermas’s ‘The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere’ and its thesis of the public sphere’s decline under capitalism — relevant to the reader’s media/communication critical-theory reading. — 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; Habermas naturalized Kant’s transcendental conditions into empirical species history. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2443

Broader Connections

• Habermas’s theory of human species formation synthesized a wide range of philosophical sources #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2427
• Habermas naturalized Kant’s transcendental conditions into empirical species history. #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2443