Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Jürgen Habermas is one of the last philosophers of the Frankfurt School, whose thoughts on social sciences are world-famous. Using descriptive-analytical method as well as "critical analysis" of Habermas's cultural theory, this study has explained the possibility of policy-making based on Habermas's cultural theory and its policy-making implications in the form of three questions. Then it has challenged these implications in the form of two more questions. This critique is presented from two perspectives: Firstly, cultural sciences and policy-making; secondly, religious position with emphasis on the Qur’an and hadith and interpersonal communication approach as one of the outstanding communication patterns in the Qur’anic and hadith knowledge. The research results show that although Habermas' cultural theory is capable of producing cultural policies at the conceptual and analytical level, these policies are very abstract and far from reality at the efficiency and implementation level because they have no performance guarantee and their realization is not reachable. The proposal of this research is to improve the social relationship between humans and the public domain based on the correction of intrapersonal communication in the private domain, and the correction of this relationship depends only on sincere relationship with God.