Dialectics Of Science Technologies And Politics

With the deepening of the influence of science technologies on the political field,the research on the relationship between them has begun to attract people’s attention and become a hot topic in academic research.Marcuse and Habermas made a profound analysis of the relationship between science technologies and politics in their critical thoughts of technological rationality.On the research of this issue,Marcuse focuses on "politicization of science and technology",while Habermas focuses on "scientization of politics".They all see the negative impact of the development of science technologies on society,and think that when science technologies develop to a certain extent,it will become a new form of rule and a new ideology.Marcuse pointed out that the technical rationality of developed industrial society has become political rationality,which dispels the opposition and opposition opinions in society in an all-round way,dispels the negativity and criticism of people,and causes one-dimensional ideological and political fields.He criticized the ideological nature of science technologies and pointed out that it is essentially a political ideology.Therefore,Marcuse resorted to the liberation of love and artistic revolution to solve this crisis.His research path is the politicization of science and technology,and the development of science technologies has changed the traditional political situation,mainly manifested in the transfer of science technologies to politics.Habermas,on the other hand,believes that the legitimacy crisis appeared in the late capitalist society,and the political legitimacy foundation was shaken,but the great development of science technologies successfully covered up this crisis for the time being.In his view,the science technologies of late capitalism,as a new ideology,is extremely concealed and controlled,which deprives people of the right to democratic discourse,hinders people’s communication activities,and leads to the scientific crisis of politics,thus making political issues a technical issue.At the same time,the invasion of technological rationality into the life world led to the colonization crisis of the life world.Habermas called for the reconstruction of communicative rationality and democratic dialogue,so that the progress of science technologies can serve the solution of the crisis of political legitimacy instead of being a means to cover up this crisis.Therefore,his research path on the relationship between science technologies and politics is the scientization of politics,which is mainly manifested in the transfer of politics to science technologies.This paper makes a comprehensive comparison and profound analysis of their critical thoughts on technological rationality,and on this basis,explores the dialectical relationship between science technologies and politics.This is helpful for us to deeply grasp the political effects of science technologies in the development process,and then effectively deal with the political crisis and new social problems brought by science and technology.