Abstract

Late in the diagnosis and critique of contemporary capitalist society, the reality of issues, Habermas's theory of communicative action has played an important role, but because of its lack of realism and social, difficult to adapt to changing times and to explain some of the new movement in Western societies generation and recognition of the practical needs, thus becoming more conservative and unable to go. Faced with this dilemma, Habermas's successor • Axel Honneth back to Hegel's theory of intersubjectivity, and on this basis that "the struggle for recognition" of the social moral conflict mode, trying to achieve the critical theory of the "recognition of the theory turn." Although Habermas' communicative theory has been playing a great role in diagnosing and criticizing on real problems of modern late Capitalism society, being lack of reality and social, being hard to keep pace with times and interpret some social new movements and their needs of recognition, it becomes more and more conservative and powerless. In face of this dilemma, Axel Honneth who was Habermas' successor put forward a social moral mode of "struggling for recognition", which based on Hegel's theory of inter-subjectivity, and tried to change the direction of critical theory to recognition theory