Habermas framed criticism as knowledge situated between philosophy and science.

Evidence

Knowledge and Human Interests was a continuation of the essays in Theory and Practice which focused on defining the status of criticism, or Marxist theory, as a form of knowledge that lay between philosophy and science. It was a continuation, too, of Habermas’s contributions to the positivist dispute, and also of his inaugural lecture on `Knowledge and Human Interests’. The book was an introduction, via the history of the problem, to a critical philosophy of science thatin contrast to scientistic philosophies of sciencewould be concerned with developing a comprehensive theory of all the various differentiated forms of knowledge, throughout the whole range of the sciences, that were available in industrial societies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 672

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ treatment of the positivist dispute and Habermas’s naturalization of Kant’s transcendental conditions. — connects to: Habermas sought to justify critical social theory through an epistemological reconstruction of positivism’s prelude. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2679; Philosophy occupies a contested intellectual middle ground between theology and science — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 40; Science must produce a legitimating philosophical discourse about its own rules — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 87
• DEFINE: Specifies what ‘critical philosophy of science’ means in Habermas’s project: a comprehensive theory of differentiated forms of knowledge.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas sought to justify critical social theory through an epistemological reconstruction of positivism’s prelude. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2679; Philosophy occupies a contested intellectual middle ground between theology and science — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 40; Science must produce a legitimating philosophical discourse about its own rules — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 87