Abstract
FRANKFURT SCHOOL AND CRITICAL THEORY IN THE CONTEXT OF HABERMAS VIEWS
This study aims to sociologically present Jürgen Habermas’ perspective within the framework of the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory. Habermas’ explanations regarding information and human needs with an interpretative approach are important in terms of understanding the subject. In the periods when Critical Theory began to move away from Marxist thought, Habermas became a “second generation” for the Frankfurt School as the most important representative of the new critical theory. Habermas, who roots the understanding he expresses as social truth in language as a universal quality rather than in society, discusses concepts such as instrumental reason, communicative reason, rationality and ideology in a critical context. Habermas, who criticizes enlightenment, positivism, modern society, culture industry, Marxist theory and sociology, offers ways out of the contradictions in which the modern society people find themselves. With the Theory of Communicative Action, he approached communication processes from spatial and temporal perspectives and tried to contribute to the emergence of public spaces by establishing abstract simultaneities in terms of being a network between communication contents.
Keywords
Habermas, Frankfurt School, Critical Theory, Communicative Action.
