The technical knowledge interest’s value-basis was forgotten through capitalist modernization.
Evidence
First, the empirical-analytic sciences’ claim to have a monopoly of scientific rationality and objectivity was deprived of the argument that they were value-free. They, too, had an objective life-reference, which had simply ceased to be noticed by scientists and philosophers of science because it was the most obvious thing in the world. The fact that this forgetfulness was so marked in the case of the technical cognitive interest could be explained by the consequences of capitalist modernization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 601
Categorization
- XREF: Ties directly to prior kept claim that empirical-analytic sciences secretly carry a technical cognitive interest masked as value-freedom and that its value-basis was forgotten. — connects to: Postmodernity abandons modern difference while retaining its technological infrastructure. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 832; Technical rationalization hides who benefits from the machinery. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 689; Modern bourgeois society abandoned traditional correctives for power misuse. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 748 (+2 more)
- DEFINE: Clarifies the Habermasian term ‘technical cognitive interest’ as an objective life-reference built into the empirical-analytic sciences.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 601
Broader Connections
- Technical rationalization hides who benefits from the machinery.
#expands(0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 689 - Postmodernity abandons modern difference while retaining its technological infrastructure.
#complicates(0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 832 - The traditional-modern dichotomy obscures the pathologies of modernization.
#corroborates(0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 156 - Modern bourgeois society abandoned traditional correctives for power misuse.
#expands(0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 748 - Modernity and modernization concepts may be inadequate to explain modern experience
#complicates(0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 146