ABSTRACT
Jürgen Habermas is the most prominent contemporary descendant of the socalled Frankfurt school. The guiding aim of his intellectual endeavours has been to reconstruct social theory so as to reunite theory and practice in a manner which accounts for the complexities of the late twentieth century. This project has entailed not only drawing upon such intellectual giants of the nineteenth and early twentieth century as Marx, Freud, Weber, Dewey, and Durkheim, but also upon practically every notable contemporary philosopher and social theorist.
