The Frankfurt School, including Habermas, explicitly positions its critical project as a reaction against positivism and the attempt to subsume social science under natural science methodology.
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“the tendency in German or continental thought that he represents is a reaction against positivism against the attempt to subsume the science of society under natural science”
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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition - Part 6 - Habermas' Critical Theory— Michael SugrueCreated: 8/10/2026, 11:16:47 PM
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