评述哈贝马斯的公共领域理论

哈贝马斯在《公共领域的结构转型》这一本书中，提出了他著名的“公共领域”理论。其目的是通过对公共领域的研究，以表明公共领域在资本主义社会的现代化过程当中的重要性。同时表明因为公共领域的衰弱，致使了资本主义国家本身的社会和政治统治陷入了“合法性危机”当中。并且提出了如何在资本主义国家进入福利国家之后，重新建构公共领域的重要性。

Evaluating the Theory of Public Spher of Habermas

In his The Structural Transformation of Public Sphere, Habermas proposed him famous theory of “the public sphere”. The goal of this theory is to indicate the importance of the public sphere in the process of the modernization of the capitalist society through the research to ＂the public sphere＂. Simuhaneously, because of the debility the public sphere, society and political governing of capitalist countries are beset with a ＂validity crisis＂. Further, Habermas underlined the importance of reconstructing the public sphere after the capitalist countries become to be welfare states.