哈贝马斯批判理论的修辞性研究

A Rhetorical Study of Habermas's Critical Theory

哈贝马斯(Habermas)是当代西方具有影响力的批判理论家,其对修辞学的贡献在于将归属于批判理论的交往重要性进行理论化。他对各种形式的公共性的历史叙述,尤其是18世纪的公共领域的叙述,以及他对交往行为理论的阐述,构成了他对20世纪修辞学理论所作的贡献。本文拟从修辞学的角度探讨哈贝马斯的批判理论,以便从一个全新的视角对他的理论进行解读。

The modern rhetoric has gone beyond the traditional one, which was limited to persuasion, and now has become an open and interdisciplinary system. Habermas is one of influential critical theorists in the contemporary West. The great contribution he made to rhetoric is that he theorized the communicative action belonging to the critical theory. His historical nar- rative on all forms of publicity, especially on the public domain of the eighteenth century, and his elaboration on the theory of communicative action, all these make up his contributions to the rhetoric of the 20th century. This paper, from the angle ＇of rhetoric, probes into Habermas＇s critical theory with the intention to interpret his theory from a new perspective.