Habermas replaced the anthropology-of-knowledge foundation with a communication-theoretic one.

Evidence

If an `interest of reason in human adulthood, in the autonomy of action and in the liberation from dogmatism’ was one of the foundations for the reproduction of the human species, must it not also have some influence on the technological and practical interest in knowledge? Habermas’s reaction to these and other problems was to substitute the project of a critical theory of society based on communication theory, in place of his attempt at justifying and approaching the critical theory of society through the anthropology of knowledge. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 674

Categorization

• XREF: Direct pivot point in Habermas’s intellectual development, connecting to Legitimation Crisis and universal pragmatics.