This text makes a brief critical reading of the article Technical progress and the social life-world (1965) by Jürgen Habermas, seeking to explain the author's ideas about the existing limits between the concepts “Science” and “Literature”, within the process of building his thesis on communicative rationality [kommunikative Vernunft], with the aim of reflecting some of his ideas in order to collaborate with the discussions of problems that are valued to the historiography of science and, more broadly, to the social studies of science and technology in contemporary times. The text also briefly examines the main references used by Habermas in his essay to deal with the partition of the so-called empirical-analytical sciences and the historic...