Reconstructing the Rational Dimension of Modernity On the Purpose of Habermas Communicative Action Theory

LiJuan Liu

Heilongjiang University, 150080, China

Abstract: Since twentieth Century, under the background that linguistic turn took place in the tradition of modernity criticism and modern philosophy in the western philosophical circles, Habermas combined the research of linguistic philosophy with the theory of linguistic behavior. He founded universal pragmatics, laying a methodological basis for his theory of communicative behavior. The modern communicative rational dimension is reconstructed. The inter-subjectivity of the communication paradigm replaces the subjective and objective opposition of the consciousness philosophy. The formation of communicative rationality characteristics is argumentative and practical. The rational division is really repaired at the level of communication behavior.

Keywords: Modernity; Philosophy of consciousness; Universal pragmatics; Communication behavior; Communication rationality