面对后现代理论的挑战,批判理论家们需要根据时代的变化重构社会批判理论。霍克海默、马尔库塞、阿多诺等试图将新的社会条件理论化以创新马克思的理论;哈贝马斯通过为现代性进行辩护重构批判理论;德里达、罗蒂等人对现代哲学传统进行了一系列攻击,要求打破这一传统;利奥塔和鲍德里亚宣布我们进入了“后现代状况”;詹姆逊把后现代主义理解为“晚期资本主义的文化逻辑”。但这些努力尚未真正完成重建社会批判理论的任务。 Facing the challenge of postmodern theory, critical theorists need to reconstruct the theory of social critique according to the changes of the times. Horkheimer, Marcuse, Adorno tried to theorize the new social conditions to innovate Marx’s theory; Habermas reconstructed the critical theory by defending the modernity; Derrida and Rorty, Philosophical traditions have carried out a series of attacks that call for breaking this tradition; Lyotard and Baudrillard announce that we have entered a “postmodern situation”; Jameson interprets postmodernism as “the cultural logic of late capitalism ”. However, these efforts have not really fulfilled the task of rebuilding social critical theory.