Postwar German conservatism reframed itself as technocratic stabilization rather than political reaction

Evidence

In what was already an advanced phase of a transitional periodthe crisis-ridden crossing of the cultural threshold of industrialismconditions seemed to be heralded that would provide German conservatism in particular, discredited by the conservative revolution' and by its partial collaboration with Nazism, with a solution that was in keeping with the times: a stabilization of industrial society’, cultural crystallization', and the perfection of what Ernst Jünger, the first theorist of technocratic conservatism, had prior to 1933 already termed organic construction’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 615

Categorization

• XREF: Plausibly connects to the earlier Habermas material on naturalizing Kantian conditions into empirical species history — both relocate ends into the system itself. — connects to: Postwar West Germany measured time by currency reform, not liberation, and suppressed memory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 471; German ordoliberalism combined a strong-state Ordnungspolitik with sociocultural individualism and postwar integrationism — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 515; German ordoliberals’ freedom was limited to economic, not political, liberty — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 501 (+2 more)
• SEED: Angle: how the ‘conservative revolution’ laundered itself as industrial sociology after 1945 — a genealogy of technocratic conservatism from Jünger to Schelsky.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Postwar West Germany measured time by currency reform, not liberation, and suppressed memory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 471; German ordoliberalism combined a strong-state Ordnungspolitik with sociocultural individualism and postwar integrationism — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 515; German ordoliberals’ freedom was limited to economic, not political, liberty — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 501 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• German ordoliberals’ freedom was limited to economic, not political, liberty #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 501