Habermas rejected the notion that technocratic rationalization is unstoppable and self-justifying.
Evidence
In contrast to Weber and Marcuse, Habermas thought the transformation of the rationality of science and technology into the historical totality was not an unstoppable, self-justifying process, but instead was a process that was exacerbating the problems. To provide a background, he sketched a history of social evolution, the main theme of which was the problem that the distribution of wealth and power was unequal but nevertheless legitimate. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2697
In contrast to Weber and Marcuse, Habermas thought the transformation of the rationality of science and technology into the historical totality was not an unstoppable, self-justifying process, but instead was a process that was exacerbating the problems. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 675
Categorization
- XREF: Marks Habermas’s pivotal break from the fatalism of Weber and Marcuse, a fault line running through the whole book. — connects to: Lyotard rejects Habermas’s consensus ideal as totalizing and terrorist — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 38
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2697; Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 675
Broader Connections
- Lyotard rejects Habermas’s consensus ideal as totalizing and terrorist
#responds-to(0.85) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 38