Habermas mirrored Enlightenment ideals against the social conditions they require.
Evidence
Habermas could to some extent put into practice an immanent critical approach to Popper which Adorno had attempted only half-heartedly. As a theoretician of the critical public sphere and of praxis in the sense of political ethical activity, he could in principle treat Popper and his critique of positivism in the same way that Marx treated liberalism, by mirroring the received idea of the bourgeois public sphere against the social conditions that would be required for its un-bourgeois realization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 599
Categorization
- XREF: Links Habermas’s immanent critique directly to Marx’s method of testing liberal ideals against their own presupposed conditions. — connects to: Habermas accused the Dialectic of Enlightenment of conceding civilization requires repression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 609; Habermas’s early thought championed protective restriction against over-rationalization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2302; The Enlightenment’s self-image required the Rest as its suppressed opposite. (+6 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Habermas accused the Dialectic of Enlightenment of conceding civilization requires repression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 609; Habermas’s early thought championed protective restriction against over-rationalization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2302; The Enlightenment’s self-image required the Rest as its suppressed opposite. (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Enlightenment dialogues led to cultural suppression and societal fractures.
#complicates(0.71) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1315