Communicative Rationalization And Reconstruction Of Modernity

In 20th century. Varied kinds of critical theory of western Marxism all surrounded the controversy of modernity problems and if the modernity was existed and if it had already transferred to past modernity and if the ideal of modernity could come true and whether they should insist on modernity or not. These problems puzzled the philosophers the thinkers and socialists. From 70th on, the trend of thought of against modernity according to the main of post modernity and conservatism attempted to weaken the connection between modernity and modernization first, and then froze the enlightened modernity civilization, and pronounced that the modernity had already died, the ideology had already frozen, Utopia had disappeared and history had already entered into the independent evolved proper course which was affected by economic and social objective variable together. It was overall negative to modernity. Jurgen Habermas didn't discuss modernity from the tradition of critical theory subject and object, nor denied and gave up modernity like what the post modernity did. He believed that traditional rational collapse didn't mean the rational end, and the enlightened crisis didn't mean the exhaution of enlightened ideas. He considered that the rationality of intellectuals in the latter part of capitalist society led to the communicative irrationality, which let the relation among people fall back to the relation among things, and then led to pass away overall. Instrumental rationality self-restrain and alienation character could eliminate, just for the rational communication among subject. If the wanted to construct rational communicative modernity, they would carry on the good parts and abandon the bad parts of alienation. And historical rational point in which pay closed attention to was in thistransition from the structure of subject-object to the structure of subject-subject. Therefore, from raising communicative act theory, the traditional historical theory was changed deeply. Juergen Habermas called it the reconstruction of historical materialism or rewriting the modernity.From the analysis about the problems of the universal pragmatics, communicative ethics, life-world colonize and etc in Juergen Habermas' communicative act theory, we can understand the wealth thought of modernity of his theory, and keep clear ideology of China modernity problems. In the international surrounding of culture globalization, with the equal conversation and mechanism based on the power of reasonable communication, and with the communicative mechanism of transitional culture, in order to reconstruct all kinds of culture type, encourage the New China rational spirit to be self-perfected, and then encourage a new rational culture spirit to be based and made in the life-world.