Comparison Of The Value Of Marx And Habermas Communication Theory

It is by no means accidental that the theory of communication has gradually become the contemporary famous doctrine. This result is attributed to a combination of the factors of social history and the internal logic of the development of philosophy.Looking from the social history aspect, since the Industrial Revolution, the industrial civilization has developed by leaps and bounds and the wave of globalization has already become an irreversible trend, and broke through the regional parochialism and the limitation of the original relationship of interpersonal consanguinity. The national history is becoming the history of the whole world. At the same time, the isolated person is in the process of being transformed into true social person who has mutual communication with others, and the individuals are moving towards the community and the association gradually. Therefore, the discussion of the communicative behavior between main bodies relates to communication and is the inevitable demand of the development of the times. Looking at the logic of the development of philosophy itself, the theory of communication has been proposed against the crisis of modernity. It is a positive effort to rewrite the modernity on the tabletop of industry civilization. The great industrial civilization and the eruption of the technical energy caused by the industrial civilization not only promote social development, but also create a modern crisis, which spurred many western philosophers to put forward their own propositions, and elaborate their own theories, , with a view to solving the crisis facing humanity. The theory of communication is precisely one of the resounding melodies. In the multitudinous communicative theories, the theory of communication which Marx and Habermas proposed may be rated as the classics.Employing the practical background of the tide of globalization and the reality of the rapid transformation of Chinese society as the foundation of elaboration and based on the previous studies of numerous predecessors, this article emphatically expounds, compares and analyzes the framework of value question of Marx's communicative theory and Habermas's communicative theory.This article explores and compares their different time backgrounds, the different issues of their times, the solutions to the crisis that they were trying hard to seek, the paths of social development, the enlightening significance of their theories to the historical reality of the world, as well as their guiding significance to the practical questions of our country during the transition period. Accordingly, under the background of the impact of irresistible historical trend of globalization, this article attempts to discuss the issue of our country's choice in integrating into the history of the world in the process of transforming, in an attempt to specify the errors, which China, on the way of modernization, should avoid falling into.