This six-page junior level paper is about the explication and evaluation of the critical reconstruction that Jurgen Habermas carries out in "Knowledge and Human Interests". Jurgen Habermas is the leading scholar of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, a group of philosophers, cultural critics and social scientists associated with the Institute for Social Research, founded in Frankfurt in 1929. The Frankfurt School is best known for its program of developing a "critical theory of society". 6 pgs. Bibliography lists 2 sources.