As a result of a new understanding of the relation between theory and representative,highly values the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism,in contrast to the first generation Critical Theorists represented by Max Horkheimer.In Habermas,the idea of critique is,both substantially and methodologically,closely connected with the idea of praxis in the following senses:communicative action,rational argumentation,public discussion and political culture.Critique is thus found to be immanent in praxis;or,a la Horkheimer,pragmatism ts out to be a critical philosophical analysis without falling back upon objective reason and mythology.