Habermas’s early thought championed protective restriction against over-rationalization

Evidence

Habermas’s first long essay, `The Dialectic of Rationalization: on Pauperism in Production and Consumption’, published in Merkur in 1954, already contained two motifs which remained central to his work. … The proposal for social rationalization is initially a restrictive one: to bracket out one area from the progressive advance of organization in order to leave scope for what develops autonomously and not automatically. The proposal is not in any way directed towards organizing these faculties as well. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2302

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Habermas’s early ‘social rationalization’ as a restrictive bracketing proposal, distinct from Marx’s critique of capitalism.
• XREF: connects to: Habermas sought to recover science’s pre-medieval link to practical living — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2326; Habermas radicalized Popper’s falsificationism through a pragmatist perspective to restrain technical rationalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417; Heidegger’s uncommented 1935 lecture shattered Habermas’s separation of politics from philosophy

Broader Connections

• Habermas radicalized Popper’s falsificationism through a pragmatist perspective to restrain technical rationalism. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2417
• Heidegger’s uncommented 1935 lecture shattered Habermas’s separation of politics from philosophy #responds-to (0.72)