Abstract

In this article, we intend to show how Habermas's intellectual project began to take shape since its first book. In this work sharp differences already appear in relation to the first generation of Critical Theory, especially when it comes to the diagnosis of late capitalism. Thus, we hope to recover the importance of the work and the subject to the understanding of the theoretical trajectory of the author. Moreover, at this point Habermas still maintains a posture of radical critique of the capitalist order, which will be clearly reviewed in the works of maturity, particularly from the 80s