From Immanent Criticism to Philosophical Anthropology:The Shift of Research Methods in Habermas's Criticism of Positivism
In the debate on positivism opened in German sociology in the 1960s,Habermas at first explicitly followed Adorno and adopted a kind of inner critique of the time domain to positivism.As the polemic pro-gressed,Habermas's views gradually tended towards a philosophical anthropological perspective.This process of transformation reflects Habermas's attempt to break away from the approach of the first generation of Frank-furt School theorists and thus construct his own version of social critical theory.While this shift opened up new areas of discursive research for Habermas and led to the formation of a theory of interactional behaviour,the abandonment of intrinsic critique deprived Habermas's critical theory of the principle of historicity.
immanent critiquepositivist critiquephilosophical anthropologyprinciple of historicity
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