Habermas joined the Institute in 1956 as Adorno’s assistant

Evidence

Ralf Dahrendorf, in whom Adorno had placed great hopes, left the Institute in 1954. The following year, Ludwig von Friedeburg joined ita young, professional empirical researcher with an open-minded attitude towards the critique of society. … A year later, Jürgen Habermas became Adorno’s research assistant and an associate of the Institute of Social Research. He was a social philosopher whose interests lay exactly in an area that had only been dealt with sketchily in Adorno’s essays and in Horkheimer’s lectures and speeches: the theory of the contemporary age, the pathology of modernity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2289

Categorization

• XREF: Reads as the seed of the next generation of Critical Theory — Habermas’s project of theorizing modernity’s pathology. — connects to: Habermas’s early work directly extended Adorno’s critical theory motifs. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2323

Broader Connections

• Habermas’s early work directly extended Adorno’s critical theory motifs. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2323