Habermas sought de-alienated labor while conservative theorists sought mass habituation

Evidence

What Habermas wanted was to remove the alienated character of labour, so far as it was possible, so that consumers could become participants in culture. What Gehlen, Freyer and Schelsky wanted was to stabilize the behaviour patterns of the masses within industrial societyif possible without making concessions in return, simply by habituating succeeding generations to an objectified, depersonalized mode of labour and production. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2309

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Habermas’s early large studies embodied a materialist theory promoting radically democratic thought — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2330; Habermas conceived revolution as gradual repoliticization of a dried-up public sphere — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2656; Habermas’s critical philosophy of science drew on both conservative and critical sources — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2440 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Habermas’s critical philosophy of science drew on both conservative and critical sources #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2440
• Habermas conceived revolution as gradual repoliticization of a dried-up public sphere #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2656
• Habermas’s early large studies embodied a materialist theory promoting radically democratic thought #qualifies (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2330