Habermas’s postwar democratic ideal was radicalized by Adorno and Marcuse.

Evidence

At the same time, Students and Politics continued Habermas’s own interest in democracy, marked by the democratic re-education' that took place after the war. This was democracy, however, in a sense explicitly radicalized into an idea of democracy’ by Habermas’s proximity to Adorno and his encounter with Marcuse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 575

Categorization

• XREF: Ties into the book’s account of the student movement and the Institute’s fraught relations with it. — connects to: Adorno diverged from Habermas by prioritizing speculative thought over political reform — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 655; Habermas’s theory of communicative action replaced Adorno’s philosophy of the subject. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746; Habermas made democracy an explicit radical standard rather than a client-pleasing concession — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 576 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Adorno diverged from Habermas by prioritizing speculative thought over political reform — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 655; Habermas’s theory of communicative action replaced Adorno’s philosophy of the subject. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746; Habermas made democracy an explicit radical standard rather than a client-pleasing concession — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 576 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas’s theory of communicative action replaced Adorno’s philosophy of the subject. #complicates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2746