As a leading theorist of our age Jurgen Habermas?s understanding of communication, politics and modernity

The human beings have produced social theories about the social world in which they themselves live. In doing this, they have used their own life experiences.This feature of human beings continues in these days. In the realm of social sciences, one of the important contributions to this activity no doubt comes from Habermas.Habermas places the rational subjects in the centre of the social world by developing his communicative action theory. The rational subjects are also the essential elements in his theory of politics and modernity. With the concepts of communication, politics and modernity Habermas achieved to produce a very coherent social theory. The most important dimension of his perspective is that he sees the action and their rational actions in the production and reproduction of social world as basic powers. Therefore, Habermas achieved in enlightening the current social world by emphasizing the rational actors and their actions.