Habermas’s Practical Political Philosophy In The Perspective Of Social Critical Theory

The origin of the thought of Habermas’s practical political philosophy mainly consists of Frankfurt School and Heidegger’s existential philosophy.Habermas’s early experience of the problem of rational reflection and democracy consciousness,prompted him to go to the philosophy and practice of critical theory.After the addition of Frankfurt school,Habermas is consciously absorb the instrumental rationality of Frankfurt School critical logic and cultural industry criticism theory,and puts forward the aim of the critical theory of modernity.Besides the influence of the Frankfurt school,Heidegger’s philosophy of existence also have an important role in the formation of Habermas’s practical political philosophy.It is built on the basis of these two aspects thought sources,Habermas has gradually formed the practical political philosophy.Had absorbed in Heidegger’s existential theory logic,Habermas began to develop his "internal criticism" of philosophical methodology,the use of this methodology prompted the debate with the Frankfurt school,and eventually led to that he was forced to leave it.Although Habermas and the Frankfurt school has the internal conflict of methodology,but he still inherited the Frankfurt School’s critique of positivism tradition,and on the basis of practical philosophy of politics in the germination of further expansion of the critique of modern philosophy.On the critique of modern philosophy,Habermas mainly focuses on the traditional abandonment of the "practice" of classical political theory and the deviation from the classical tradition.Habermas’s practical political philosophy reflects the overall critical technique of breaking the limitation of the modern discipline of study,advocated by of people and animals,the environment and the world,religion,society,history and culture of a series of related to restore "totality" of the size,and the time period of the Greek city states "culture"(political)grand unified era.In addition,Habermas also were expressed in the practical political philosophy regression practice consciousness experience view of theoretical orientation,the criticism of the public realm,and for as a kind of practice of bourgeois society theory of public opinion and so on three aspects in detail,and further highlights the theoretical connotation of the practice of political philosophy.