Abstract

Most representative of the second generation of Frankfurt School scholars: Habermas, critical theory not only strive to go beyond the classical, further reconstruction work, in its view, reflect Marx's "historical materialism", Weber's "rationalization" concept-cum-other theory, the proposed "communication theory." Habermas expectations by "communicative rationality" of the practice of equality through open communication channels, including the establishment of a normative and critical concepts of rationalization and consensus, and thus become a positive force for the benefit of human life. This article from the "reflection, critique and reconstruction" analysis of Habermas's critique of academic characteristics, and that its principal argument for the "communication theory", but since communication theory into the gestation period, construction period, the full periods of three explore the construction and content of communication theory, the last quoted Professor Hung-Te treatises and ideas, introduce Ha Boma period of two studies in recent years committed Definition and legal concept, in order to understand the application of the theory of communication and influence, to glimpse a view to the academic stream of this the sketch