Habermas as the second generation of Frankfurt school, histheory was in succession on the basis of traditional socialcritical theory of Frankfurt school and has realized thetranscendence and turning. His communicative rationality asthe core of communication theory embodies his philosophy fromconsciousness philosophy to exchange, from instrumentalrationality into the communicative rationality. He put theFrankfurt school’s theory of dialectics in research methodcombined with the philosophy of positivism and philosophicalcommentaries and realized the “linguistic turnâ€. Habermas’transcendence of the Frankfurt school theory and turned to acertain extent had saved the crisis of traditional socialcritical theory of Frankfurt school. |