Habermas' Exploration of the Relationship between Modernity and Rationality

  • Zheng-yong WU ,
  • Ru-zhuang XU
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  • 1. Department of Essential Education, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, Shanghai 201620, China
    2. Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Received date: 2006-08-09

  Online published: 2006-11-30

Abstract

Through a review of Max Weber's thought, Habermas expounds an inherent connection between modernity and"disenchantment"of religion and theology and Western rationalism.According to him, both Weber's view of intention-instrumental rationality and modern subjective philosophy's overstatement on self-consciousness are partial.Meanwhile, Habermas criticizes post-modem philosophy's turning to non-rationalism.He learns something from Schiller's aesthetics, seeking to save modemity thruugh further enlightenment of rationality and construction of communicative rationality.

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Zheng-yong WU , Ru-zhuang XU . Habermas' Exploration of the Relationship between Modernity and Rationality[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2006 , 38(6) : 23 -28 . DOI: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2006.06.004

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