Habermas’ Theory Of Colonization Of Life World And Criticism Of Historical Materialism

Habermas,who claims to be a Marxist,gathers the strengths of his family,critically absorbs the thoughts of his predecessors,and through the analysis and criticism of the status quo of the late capitalist society,he constructs a colonial theory of the living world.This article aims to sort out Habermas’ s life world colonization theory,analyze its theoretical value,and criticize its departure from historical materialism.This article is divided into four parts.The first part starts from the background of Habermas’ s theory,and points out that his theory is based on reality.This is also the place where he surpasses other thinkers and sorts out the academic research progress on this theory.The first chapter is to clarify the conceptual origin and basic points of the life world,point out that his life world theory surpasses Husserl and others,and then analyze Habermas’ life world from the emotional world of Marx,and discuss the life world.The three characteristics and essence of the background.The second chapter mainly discusses the concrete connotation of the life world colonization theory.This chapter discusses how Habermas borrowed from Parsons’ s system and constructed his own system-life-world double-layer structure,so as to show that the system is separated from the life world until The system in turn dominates the process of the living world,and finally looks forward to it,realizing the rationalization of the living world through the reconstruction of communicative rationality,constructing ideal speech situations to realize the healthy development of society,and people realize the subject value.The third chapter affirms the value of Habermas’ s theory of colonization of the living world from the theoretical and practical values,and examines the departure of this theory from the historical materialism: he is always loyal to the capitalist system,his criticism is not strong enough,and the proposed reconstruction Communicative rationality and ideals say that the situation is a kind wish.Habermas’ s theory belongs to Utopia’s writings after all,but also contains a strong spiritual power.