Technological rationality served ideology before it justified revolution.

Evidence

Technology and Science suggested a method of analysing the coherence of the society in which positivism first arose and took on an ideological function. From this, the book drew conclusions about how to clarify the conditions that would be necessary to revolutionize late-capitalist societies. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 671

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames positivism’s ideological function as the analytic object of Habermas’s book, sharpening the concept of ‘scientism as ideology’ central to critical theory.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism governs through a technological rationality so pervasive that it no longer needs ideology — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 228; Technological rationality functions as political rationality in industrial society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 100; Modernization theory served as an ideological counter to revolutionary upheaval — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 152 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Capitalism governs through a technological rationality so pervasive that it no longer needs ideology — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 228; Technological rationality functions as political rationality in industrial society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 100; Modernization theory served as an ideological counter to revolutionary upheaval — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 152 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Technological rationality functions as political rationality in industrial society #corroborates (0.95) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 100