The Study Of Civil Society Theory Of Habermas

In recent years, "civil society" has become one of the hot research at home and abroad. While the modern philosopher Habermas in succession on the basis of previous thought, rooted in the reality of contemporary western society, construct a set of theory of civil society is unique. This thesis tries to analyze and Research on the origin of Habermas’s theory of civil society and the concrete frame, to find out the inherent logic connection, and analyzes the rationality and limitations.The thesis can be divided into four parts:The first part is the process of evolution from ancient times to the civil society theory is reviewed, hoping to find the theoretical origin of Habermas’s civil society from the. The development of the civil society theory can be roughly divided into three stages:the classical era was born in ancient Greece and ancient Rome’s concept of civil society and political state is synonymous with the city, has a similar meaning to the modern civilization; civil society, the meaning has changed gradually, and the civil society and the political significance of decoupling, political state and civil society have begun to separate, social labor and commodity exchange economy in particular; and to the contemporary, with the rapid development of monopoly capitalism society, studying the theory of civil society has changed, have been given a new meaning of culture and society.The second part mainly introduces Habermas’s theory of civil society in the early stage, theory, the public domain is used as a core concept of the theory of civil society. The public domain is a part of civil society, and after the separation of state and civil society, become the link and bridge of communication between the public, bear form has the public and critical discussion and political authority to provide the important functions of legitimacy. By the late capitalist era, "public" and "private" field and mutual penetration, the state and civil society was divided into two structures were damaged, the public sphere has also undergone a transformation, public and critical gradually decline, leading to the legitimacy of the capitalist system is threatened.The third part discusses the Habermas’s later theory of civil society, by reference to the theory of communicative action and transformation of pragmatics, "life world" and the "system" of the two part to frame a new paradigm of Habermas’s civil society theory. Life world corresponds to the field of culture, is the premise and background of communicative behavior, political, economic system is capable of measuring, strong control force. Habermas believes that modern people "significant loss" and "free," because the tool rationality as the dominant political and economic system for the communicative rationality of life world colonization led to master Zhang, to bridge the division of rational communicative rationality, reconstruction of life world.The fourth part is to discuss how to treat Habermas’s civil society theory of Habermas, the concept of "public sphere" and "life world" of the introduction of the theory of civil society, construct the new paradigm of the theory of civil society, and increase the development of social theory and cultural level people’s meaning, and to diagnose the problem of modernity, the criticism theory again radiate vitality, this is a reasonable theory and the difference of civil society; Habermas inside of neglect, simple relationship between the life world and system interpretation into opposition, and then he proposed the theory of global civil society strong Utopian color, has become the unavoidable we study Habermas’s citizen the problem of social theory.