2 PROBLEMS OF CONSTRUCT CONNECTED WITH TH E COMMUNICATIVE ACTION THEORY

The ''Theory of Communicative Action'' of Jurgen Habermas found intern ational resonance in philosophy and sociology. Controversial points in this conception are the formal-pragmatic theory of meaning as a found ation of a sociological theory of action, the structural model of soci etal rationalization and the explantion of the structure of modern soc ieties with a theory of differentiation. Above all his criticism on T. Parsons - Parsons sociology can not explain social pathologies - is d isputed. This essay examines Habermas formal-pragmatic theory of meani ng, and the differentiation theory of modern societies - following R. Munch - and his criticism on Parsons and argues that Hobbes solution o f the problem of order has an evolutionary significance and that the f oundation of a theory of social action has to differentiate between th e theory of meaning of language behaviour and the systematization of t he structure of social action.