“现代性是一项未竟的事业“——哈贝马斯现代性理论探究

哈贝马斯是一位关注现代资本主义社会发展的社会理论批判家,他所提出的现代性理论,不仅对现代性的形成与发展、现代性的基本原则以及现代性与启蒙理性的辩证关系进行了历史与逻辑的阐述和论证,而且针对现代性给当代资本主义社会带来的各种弊病与危机,提出了克服和解决的方法——交往行为理论。他提出的理论观点,虽然有些偏颇且过于理想,但思考和观察问题的角度,对于我们正在进行的现代化建设却有着一定的启示和借鉴意义。

"Modernity Is Being Designed": Analysis of Modernity Theory by Jurgen Habermas

Jurgen Habermas is a famous social theorist,which focuses on the social development of modern capitalism.The modernity theory that he points out has interpreted and supported historically and logically the formation,the development,the basic rule of modernity,and even the dialectical relationship between modernity and enlightenment reason.On the different social evils and crisis from contemporary capitalism,Jurgen Habermas takes his Communication Action theory for solution.Though the theoretical views he puts forward seem somewhat extreme and ideal,they are helpful to inspire and to enlighten us in the construction of modernization if we look at them with a view of thinking and observation.