The Communicative Action of Habermas

Abstract

Jürgen Habermas wants to establish the theory of communicative action, in a time where society is under influence of Instrumental mind. In other terms the authoritarian mind  of  the  authoritarian  through  and  capitalists  in  markets  controlling companies, state authorities and the society. Habermas intends to visualize the theory of Communicative action. The theory of a social criticism  that  based  on Anthropology, linguistics,  ethics,  politics,  social principles, philosophy and  other  principles,  in  order  to  point  out  the  characteristics  of intellectuals socio-institutionally, that consist of restriction and limit the human and nature, treating it as means.    This theory is to serve a critical-social analyses and to hold characteristics  of  intellectuals  socio-institutionally, to have the  ability  breaking through the intellectuals socio-institutionally, that being for ages in the western intellectuals, aiming not only the individuals open up to each other, but to reach the level of fruitful understanding, to establish a intellectuals status and only by this is able to integrate the scattered parts of society, which the communicative is a social act and aiming toward (Social integration). Therefore, to give a broader sense of this theory, our study presented in the following section: The Theory of Communicative Action, The role of Discourse Theory, Habermas’s Cosmopolitanism, Habermas’s Discourse Theory.