Habermas grounded society’s critical standard in reason embedded within language itself

Evidence

The assumption that there was an idea of reason contained within language as an existential condition of the human species seemed to produce a standard for the criticism of society that was independent of historical traditions. This was the conclusion to which Habermas had been leading in borrowing Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s concepts of human existence as speech and a solidarity that unified every speaker of a language. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 607

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the load-bearing premise of Habermas’s critical philosophy of science: an idea of reason immanent in language as a species-wide existential condition.
• XREF: Connects to Gadamerian hermeneutics and the Frankfurt School’s turn from transcendental reason to linguistic reason. — connects to: Durkheim grounded society’s reality in its material representations; Habermas grounded critical theory in communication theory rather than the anthropology of knowledge. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2693; Habermas grounds universalizing reason in the dialogical structure of communication. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 356 (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Durkheim grounded society’s reality in its material representations; Habermas grounded critical theory in communication theory rather than the anthropology of knowledge. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2693; Habermas grounds universalizing reason in the dialogical structure of communication. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 356 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas grounded critique in language itself to escape historical relativism #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2445
• Habermas grounds universalizing reason in the dialogical structure of communication. #expands (0.93) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 356
• Linguistic philosophy suppresses what speech reveals about the society that speaks it #complicates (0.74) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 652