Habermas linked student protest to recovering science’s emancipatory potential

Evidence

In his speech, Habermas tried to define the students’ political role and to clarify the difficulties arising from an attempt not merely to interpret the world but also to change it. … He saw two elements as being linked in the student opposition: a demand to recover the educational potential of the sciencesa demand to recover society’s practical potential for emancipation; and a demand for the maintenance or restitution of the dimension of self-reflection in the universitya demand for the restitution of the dimension of praxis in society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2613

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habermas sought to recover science’s pre-medieval link to practical living — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2326; Young Habermas sought to recover science’s link to living practice, unlike his Frankfurt predecessors — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2326; Habermas’s account of student protest merged conflict-displacement theory with Marcuse’s new sensibility thesis — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2650 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas’s 1968 essay supplied student radicals their slogan that science serves as ideology. #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2679
• Habermas’s account of student protest merged conflict-displacement theory with Marcuse’s new sensibility thesis #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2650
• Habermas condemned student protest tactics as ritualized blackmail and delusional #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2653