MODERNIDADE E CRISE AMBIENTAL

This paper examines implications of the modernization of societies and the environmental crisis, based on Jürgen Habermas Social Theory, which comprises the development of society as a process of differentiation between the World of Life and system, by learning the subjects, both in the instrumental dimension (work), and in the communicative dimension (interaction) in an alternative perspective on the proposal of Max Weber, in his analysis that prioritizes the instrumental rationality. Initially, we analyze the subject concepts and subjectivity (rationality) to present Habermas's proposal of a "communicative rationality". Following the theoretical constructs will be analyzed "work", "interaction", "life-world" and "system" central to Habermas's social theory. Finally, the ideas of Habermas on the development of societies in two dimensions and its implications for understanding contemporary environmental crisis will be presented.