After an introductory section on the status of the philosophy of history as knowledge, this article analyzes the rupture effectuated by Habermas in his theoretical trajectory, which had the objective of freeing his social theory from that philosophy and, consequentely, of going beyond theses on the constrution of a subject of the history of the practicability of history. We diagnose the fundamental transformation that this rupture or rejection of the philosophy of history brought to Habermas' critical theory of society and, more specifically, point out the rudiments and traces of the earlier philosophy in the later theory.
philosophy of history; critical theory of society; Jürgen Habermas