Transformation Of Rationalism Paradigm And Its Modern Value

"Rationalism" issues have been the focus of Habermas's critical theory, in which he pointed out that "The historical reconstruction of the modern discourse should be established on the basis that the contemporary social theory can supply the new normality for the modern reflection and rational reconstruction", "From Hegel to Derrida, rational criticism was just the 'reflective' criticism of oneself subject contributes to the rationalism's establishment, turning to be highly controversial, even deconstructed". In order to achieve a Rational Reconstruction, the traditional paradigm of rationalism with "Subject- Oriented" had to be broken through and transcended and accomplished the transformation from the "philosophy of consciousness" into "Communicative Rational" paradigm. After fully absorbed from Wittgenstein's "Language Games" theory and Austin Searle's "Speech Act" theory, Habermas constructed "Normative Pragmatics", which leads to "orderly running of communicative action in ideal environment, the foundation of communicative rationality based on the social practice, and access of the coordinated development of life world and system", thus, the traditional rationalism be " saved ", which tranformed from the "Subject Rationality" paradigm into the "Communicative Rationality" paradigm that based on the " Intersubjectivity ".The research takes a full range of discussion and analysis as the threshold level on Habermas's "Theory of Communicative Action" from theory to practice, it is based on "rationalism paradigm shift " coordinate,which aims to reveal the great theoretical and practical value of Habermas's "paradigm shift" that turn the traditional "Objective Reasonality" to the "Communicative Rationality ". In theory, this dissertation has revealed the important theoretical value of Habermas's "Communicative Rationality" paradigm for solving the crisis of modernity and the reconstruction of "Enlightenment Rationality", which by the way of inspection in the generation of "Communicative Rationality" that originated from the processes of rationalism and the historical context of socail critical theory on "Kant, Hegel, Marx, Weber, Lukacs and the Early Frankfurt School" study; at a practical level, through the analysis of the core of Habermas's "Discourse Ethics " and the realistic path of "institutionalized negotiations", the thesis has illustrated the contemporary value of the "Deliberative Democracy" practice that contained the "Communicative Rationality". More importantly, this study also tries to put Habermas's "Communicative Rationality"into the context of the reality of modern China, which have taken a kind of consideration of the unique historical circumstances and practical features for the process of China's modernization, and provides the great reference of Habermas's "Communicative Rationality" to China's current modernization, and its enlightenment values of the idea on discourse discussion to the solution of social order anomie in China's trasition period.