Habermas grounded critical theory in communication theory rather than the anthropology of knowledge.

Evidence

Habermas’s reaction to these and other problems was to substitute the project of a critical theory of society based on communication theory, in place of his attempt at justifying and approaching the critical theory of society through the anthropology of knowledge. Taking people’s speaking and acting with one another as his starting-point, he attempted to show that the anticipation of undistorted communication was the condition of possibility for communicative actionthat is, action aiming to achieve understanding. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2693

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘communicative action’ as action aiming to achieve understanding via anticipation of undistorted communication.
• XREF: Connects to Habermas’s theory of communicative action and universal pragmatics as later developed in his major works. — connects to: Habermas grounded Popper’s rational discussion ideal in a comprehensive rationality of free dialogue — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2416; Habermas grounded critique in language itself to escape historical relativism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2445; Habermas grounds universalizing reason in the dialogical structure of communication. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 356 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas grounds universalizing reason in the dialogical structure of communication. #corroborates (0.88) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 356
• Horkheimer grounded Critical Theory in natural reason emanating from innate sympathies. #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2155