Habermas refined Weber and Marcuse on how technical rationality becomes a total life-form.

Evidence

Habermas attempted to define, in a more precise fashion than Max Weber and Herbert Marcuse before him, the phenomenon according to which the rational form of science and technologythe rationality embodied in systems of purposive actionwas expanding to become the historical totality of a life-form. Weber had interpreted this as a process of rationalization' paralleling the process of demystification’ of traditions; Marcuse had attempted to define it as a fusion of technology and power. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2695

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Weber’s rationalization thesis and Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man on technology as ideology. — connects to: Weber’s scheme routes all institutions from traditional to rationalized via charisma — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6131; Weber’s rationalization is fundamentally an acceleration of means-ends efficiency. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 197

Broader Connections

• Weber’s scheme routes all institutions from traditional to rationalized via charisma #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 6131