Demonstration Of Habermas's Standpoint Of Scientific And Technological Productive Force

Nowadays the society is going through global scientific technical revolution, science and technology is influencing human future and destiny more and more deeply. Therefore, research on the social impact and influence of science and technology has become a study focus of the academic field.On the base of "trinitized" historical background of science, technology and producing in capitalist society nowadays, Jurgen Harbermas, the second-generation successor of the Frankford School, who made a research on the inherent stipulation of the relationship between science and technology and productive force, originally, putting forward the standpoint of "Science and technology is the primary productive force". Combining with the historical facts of the development of capitalist society, he made introspections on the veins and essence of the development of science and technology, and constructed a set of mature theoretical system on scientific and technological productive force. In spite of the guiding significance of Habermas's standpoint of scientific and technological productive force in our re-examing the value of science and technology, his standpoint was built on the base of historical idealism, so we must make our choice carefully.Guided by historical materialism, this paper setting its perspective at deconstructing Harbermas' assertion makes an exhaustive explanation of his viewpoints with the concerned study materials. Through rightly analyzing Harbermas' viewpoints from a materialistic and dialectical perspective, this paper reveals the rationality and shortages in his theory. Based on this, the author is aimed at making analysis and comparation of Harbermas's and Marx's theories on scientific and technological productive force from perspective of logical starting point of the theory of scientific and technological productive force, trend of the theoretical objective and essence of the two theories, in order to highlight the connotation of the two different scientific and technological theories in different historical stages in the development of capitalism society. Based on the analysis and comparison, I come to the following conclusion: (1) Harbermas' Viewpoint of Science and Technology Productivity is based on the idea that "technology predominates over logos", which is aimed at making a "social criticism" on the viewpoint "tool rational overrun", so as to totally negate the affirmative social significance of science and technology, and contribute the negative effects of science and technology to science and technology itself, making a criticism of science and technology instead of capitalist system. (2) Harbermas advocates the assertion that Marxism is outdated. He replaces Marx's theory of "critique of social system" with "critique of ideology" and "critique of culture". (3) Habermas neglect of science and technology in social function and the political effects of specific forms of social or economic system. He seemed the Alliance Department of science and technology as the foundation of legitimacy of the existing political power, and then coming to the conclusion: "life of the world's colonial rule". To study Habermas's theory is of very important theoretical and realistic significances for us to cognize the social evils inherent in capitalism, certain negative effect of technological civilization and to guide the modern construction project in China.