The purpose of this thesis is to analyze Habermas' crisis theory of the post-capitalist society. Habermas is a social evolutionist. He attaches importance to the course of social change, social complexity and the structural differentiation of society....
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze Habermas' crisis theory of the post-capitalist society. Habermas is a social evolutionist. He attaches importance to the course of social change, social complexity and the structural differentiation of society. How does Habermas understand the characteristic of the post-capitalist society? What is the crisis tendency in the post-capitalist society? To solve these questions, this study is aimed at analyzing the crisis theory of Habermas. That is to say, this study attempts to examine the practical analysis of the post-capitalist society. To deal with this problem. the method is concerned with the use of conceptual framework of systems-crisis. But we know that Habermas deals with the system crisis within the frame of critical theory. This fact was known the academic controversy with Luhmann. The construction of this thesis is as follows: Chapter Ⅱdeals with the theoretical base of Habermas' social crisis analysis on two views; the method of social epistemology. the method of crisis-analysis. Chapter Ⅲ deals with Habermas' crisis analysis of the post-capitalist society on three aspects; the crisis of economic system. the crisis of political system. the crisis of sociocultural system. The result in this study can be summarized: Habermas evolves the theoretical base of crisis-analysis through his social epistemology. His social epistemology outpours his critical theory of society. His critical theory of society is composed of three words: historicity. dialectic. totality.
The initiation of Habermas' social epistemlogy is the historicity. Habermas evolves his social epistemology dialectically. HE grasps the society in the aggregate. After Habermas examines many sided methodology of crisis-analysis, he analyzes the post-capitalist society.
He describes the phase of the post-capitalist society on two aspects. On the one hand, he considers the ideology of science and technology as the dominant ideology of modern society. On the other hand, he considers the contradiction of the post-capitalist society as the distorted communication. Through the base of this phase, Habermas explains the crisis of sub-system. Habermas analyzes the input-output crisis of sub-system.