Conception of a utopian vision for a just world

Author: Zhang Guofeng
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: At the turn of the century, in an era where metaphysical critique was prevalent, empiricism, positivism, and scientism were in vogue, and concepts like reason, truth, and subjectivity wereed and deconstructed, Habermas still persistently defended the rationality of enlightenment, adhered to the "freedom, equality, and fraternity" ideal of the enlightenment movement, and hoped to improve the current state of the world and realize the ideals of enlightenment thinkers through a set of solutions he designed, centered around "the theory of communicative action." This book, "Interpretation," starts from "the theory of communicative action" to organize Habermas's entire theoretical system and explores controversial hot issues in social sciences such as "modernity," the "legitimacy crisis" of late capitalism, human rights theory, and cultural theory.