Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• seyed mehdi alvaani
• hasan daanaai fard

Abstract

Critical  theory  is one  of the  contemporary thoughts  about social sciences. Critical theory, emphasises   social  realities  incorporating   historically situated structures.Thus  critical theory aim at criticizing and transforming socail, political cultulal  economic  ethnic  and volues. In  the  article, First, we study  early  crirical theory,  then  discuss (critical  of Max Horkheimer) critical theory  of Urgen  Habermas. At the  end examine its  relation  to public administration