The Research About Habermas’Theory Of Science And Technology

Since modern times, science and technology has been significant to humansociety. This affects not only brought people rich material wealth, made people’smaterial life improved, but also brought a lot of negative problems in it. In themodern times ago, any society is not found such a phenomenon. So, manythinkers and social scientists are beginning to analyze this phenomenon, flangeovercome school is one of the most typical academic schools.Habermas, as the leader of the second generation of Frankfurt school, heinherited the older generation about science and technology alienation and toolsrational criticism theory, and in this proposed on the basis of their own uniqueideas of science and technology. Habermas think that the reasons have twodimensions: communication tool and sex. Instrumental reflected in therelationship between man and nature in, it focuses attention on purpose andefficiency can be called tools reason; Communication between people ofreflected in the interaction in, it is concerned about the communication andunderstanding, Habermas call it the communicative rationality. Contemporary society and the technical problems, is because the technology rational flood, thesuppression of the rational communication sexual development, so that moderntechnology to solve Habermas, will be based on the interaction theory, use ismore accessible to replace communicative rationality tool rationality.From the Habermas understanding to rational to start, first introducedthe rational development history, this paper discusses the two dimensions of therational Habermas of understanding. Secondly, this paper expounds theunderstanding of science and technology, Habermas, namely, in late capitalistsociety, science and technology as the first productivity and science andtechnology has the function of ideology. Finally, the author stood in thehistorical materialism to the position of science and technology, Habermasthought analyze the rationality that both has its limitations. Its biggest notrationality reflected in his scientific ideology theory has a strong color of thebourgeoisie, to the asset class criticism of science and technology transfer to thecriticism, this is we need to pay attention. The rationality of the biggest reflectedin his productivity effect of science and technology of affirmation and prospectsof the development of science and technology optimistic attitude, and he about how to solve the technical problem and put forward the way to solve thetechnical democratization, all of this to the modernization construction of ourcountry, how to better use of the science and technology, to prevent the negativeeffect of technology has the extremely vital significance.