Scientific reason is the methodology of a pre-given historical reality.

Evidence

In contrast to Piaget’s rather psychological and biological analysis, Husserl has offered a genetic epistemology which is focused on the socio-historical structure of scientific reason. I shall here refer to Husserl’s work25 only insofar as it emphasizes the extent to which modern science is the “methodology” of a pre-given historical reality within whose universe it moves. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 600

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the socio-historical, genetic-epistemology frame that grounds the chapter’s critique of one-dimensional scientific rationality.
• XREF: Connects to Adorno and the broader Frankfurt School critique of instrumental reason, which the reader is placing Marcuse within. — connects to: Reason’s apparent triumph over nature is really its obedient subjection to facts — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 45; Enlightenment defines reason as systematic organization of data; Reason was originally conceived as a subversive power that transforms reality toward truth — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 487 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• A scientific framework’s presuppositions are culturally and historically conditioned #expands (0.93) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 148
• Philosophy of praxis must be understood as historical methodology. #expands (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1552
• Scientific theories are superstructures explained by history, not causes of it. #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1652
• Unknown reality is a relative historical condition, not a metaphysical unknowable #expands (0.75)
• Objectivity of concepts rests on a collective historical subject #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 764
• Facts become science only when tied together by explanatory theory #expands (0.72)
• Contingency of historical conjunctures is a precondition for political possibility #expands (0.70)