Habermas’s theory of society was assembled from philosophy, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis.
Evidence
His sources included Rothacker on
lifestyle', Gehlen onsphere of action’, Gadamer on `dialogue’ as forming the basis of communicatively constituted human existence, Husserl on the relation between the life-world and science, Adorno and Horkheimer on Critical Theory, Schelsky, Ritter and others on the role of the sciences in a civilization distorted by science, Hannah Arendt on the relationship between theory, technology and praxis, and Freud on psychoanalysis as therapy through self-reflection. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 602
Categorization
- XREF: Maps Habermas onto the Frankfurt lineage (Adorno, Horkheimer) plus Gadamer, Arendt, and Freud, useful for cross-linking schools in a reference history. — connects to: The 1956 Freud centenary lectures introduced Habermas to psychoanalysis as social critique. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 572; Habermas’s student study fused Adorno’s method with Popitz-style ‘images of society’ analysis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 576; Habermas derived a theory of institutions and ideologies from Freudian psychoanalysis by analogy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2686 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The 1956 Freud centenary lectures introduced Habermas to psychoanalysis as social critique. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 572; Habermas’s student study fused Adorno’s method with Popitz-style ‘images of society’ analysis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 576; Habermas derived a theory of institutions and ideologies from Freudian psychoanalysis by analogy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2686 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Habermas synthesized many intellectual sources into a novel account of society.
#expands(0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 602