Habermas made democracy an explicit radical standard rather than a client-pleasing concession

Evidence

The systematic treatment given to studies in political science and constitutional law by bourgeois' scholars, and the replacement of depth-psychological and social-psychological interpretations of the interviewees' responses with an exposition of their images of society’ (following in the steps of the research on workers done by Heinrich Popitz and his colleagues)this was all new. What was also new was that the concept of democracywhich in The Authoritarian Personality, and even more so in Group Experiment, had been a concession to research clients and the prevailing situation, concealing radically anti-capitalist, utopian-revolutionary criteriawas invested with radical content by Habermas and overtly made into an explicit standard of measurement. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 576

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s earlier Group Experiment and The Authoritarian Personality, where ‘democracy’ functioned as a concealed concession to research sponsors. — connects to: Habermas’s procedural discourse theory fails by denying that democracy needs an ethos — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 316; Rawls and Habermas seek rational consensus to stabilize liberal democracy. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 429; Habermas’s postwar democratic ideal was radicalized by Adorno and Marcuse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 575 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the shift from depth-psychological interpretation of respondents to reconstructing their ‘images of society’.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas’s procedural discourse theory fails by denying that democracy needs an ethos — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 316; Rawls and Habermas seek rational consensus to stabilize liberal democracy. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 429; Habermas’s postwar democratic ideal was radicalized by Adorno and Marcuse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 575 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas openly deployed ‘democracy’ as a radical normative measure unlike his predecessors #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2335