Habermas’s works and SDS ties made him the students’ natural interlocutor

Evidence

In his speech, Habermas tried to define the students’ political role and to clarify the difficulties arising from an attempt not merely to interpret the world but also to change it. As the principal author of Students and Politics and the author of Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, as a critical philosopher of science and a long-term partner in discussions with the SDS, especially on ideas for democratic reform of the universities, he was marked out like no one else among the non-student population to undertake such attempts at self-comprehension and clarification. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 651

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the specific texts and roles — Students and Politics, Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, SDS dialogue — that defined Habermas’s public position in 1967.
• XREF: connects to: Habermas saw the student path as a tightrope between apathy and revolutionary oversimplification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2615; Habermas credited the student opposition with opening a new path to radical structural change. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662; Habermas linked student protest to recovering science’s emancipatory potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2613 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas saw the student path as a tightrope between apathy and revolutionary oversimplification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2615; Habermas credited the student opposition with opening a new path to radical structural change. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 662; Habermas linked student protest to recovering science’s emancipatory potential — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2613 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas’s left-wing fascism charge alienated him from the SDS #complicates (0.88) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2618
• By mid-1967 the SDS leadership could no longer speak freely with Habermas #complicates (0.86) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 653