Habermas critiqued Popper immanently by contrasting the bourgeois public sphere with free dialogue conditions

Evidence

Habermas’s approach was quite different from Adorno’s. He was able to proceed differently because, as now at least became clear, his ideas were fundamentally different from those of Adorno and the other major theoreticians of the Horkheimer circle. Habermas could to some extent put into practice an immanent critical approach to Popper which Adorno had attempted only half-heartedly. As a theoretician of the critical public sphere and of praxis in the sense of political ethical activity, he could in principle treat Popper and his critique of positivism in the same way that Marx treated liberalism, by mirroring the received idea of the bourgeois public sphere against the social conditions that would be required for its un-bourgeois realization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2416

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the method of immanent critique as practiced by Habermas against Popper — mirroring an ideal against the conditions for its realization.
• XREF: connects to: Habermas radicalized Popper’s falsificationism through a pragmatist perspective to restrain technical rationalism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2417; Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2416

Broader Connections

• Habermas radicalized Popper’s falsificationism through a pragmatist perspective to restrain technical rationalism. #qualifies (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2417
• Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue #contradicts (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2416