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Is sociology the enemy?

Is sociology the enemy?

Popper's words on Adorno and Habermas provoke mixed feelings

Ben Cobley
Feb 26, 2023
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Yesterday my attention was drawn to this letter written by Karl Popper to a Professor Aron, I presume the French thinker Raymond Aron.

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@EFDavies Karl Popper sagte über Habermas, er sei "wahrscheinlich nicht dümmer, als andere Leute, habe aber dem zerstörerischen Einfluß einer Universität nicht widerstehen können" Aber vielleicht waren das andere Zeiten...
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Popper expresses the now quite-widespread view that the writings of Theodor Adorno and Jurgen Habermas, leading figures in the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory were/are charlatans writing elaborate text that “turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense.”

Seeing the letter brought on mixed feelings.

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