A Study On Habermas' Theroy Of Communicative Action Under The Cirumstance Of Globalization

Habermas' study tumed to the communicative theory from the eighties of the twentieth century. Habermas opposed consciousness philosophy's separation between subject and object. He disagreed with Marx Weber's instrumental rationality and raised the theory of communicative action which language is medium, life world is the ligament, understanding is the orientation, intersubjectivity is the main character. Concerning the comedown of value and freedom in the modem industrial civilized society, Habermas analyzed and critiqued the "Colonization of life world"which brought by "post-capitalism period". He conceived to rebuild a new finer society by achieving communicative rationality. Although Habermas' theory of communicative action has the certain fantasy, the exaggeration and the romanticism color, but we develops equally, the aware contact practice regarding present era, it has the important theory value and the latent significance. The article cuts into from the globalization angle of view, and discusses Habermas' theory of communicative action with emphasis and attempts to promulgate all sorts of enlightenment on the construction of the socialism harmonious society and the world contact strategy under the globalization background.This article falls into four parts to study Habermas' theory of communicative action. The first part analyzes and discusses the philosophy theory background of Habermas' theory of communicative action from two aspects of contemporary western philosophy of language and Marx Weber's rational theory. From the two critique research, Habermas realizes that he overcomes the traditional consciousness philosophy and surmounts the modem theory difficult position, what is the most essential is the establishment of communicative action theory. The second part elaborates basic connotation of Habermas' theory of communicative action from the communicative action concept, the language in the communicative action status and it's the function, the life world and its colonization, the communicative rationality and its rationalization. He indicates the communicative action is the most reasonable behavior through the comparison among the goal behavior, the standard adjustment behavior, and the play behavior; The language has the special status in the communicative action, and it is the most basic medium, carrying out the function on understanding, the motion movement to organize cooperatives and the socialization of the individual; it conforms the society from the life world and the system double-decked overhead construction, and gets rid of the life world colonizes to lie in substituting the communicative rationality for goal rationality, and reconstructs the reasonable society through the communicative rationalization. The third part is the innovation part, and elaborates communicative disassimilation phenomenon under the globalization background, must introduce Habermas' theory of communicative action to give refers. Emphatically pointed out on this foundation, Habermas' theory of communicative action is helpful to formulate the more reasonable world communicative strategy, and to construct the socialism harmonious society. It gives our profound enlightenment. The fourth part mainly states the author's views about Habermas' theory of communicative action. The author evaluates the constructive significance of the theory, and points out its deficiency from two aspects of theory and practice.