Habermas believes that such remnants of the Enlightenment are essential to correct the misperception that we can effectively live together with NO metanarrative. Habermas accepts a metanarrative that remains flexible and open to new understandings (cf. his auto-poietic "learning" systems, when he criticizes Luhmann's auto-poietic non-learning systems.) I think this metanarrative is the process of enabling communication
Foucault sees that as unacceptable, subjective. Habermas sees Foucault as neo-conservative, throwing out all to preserve a purity of perspective we cannot and do not need to achieve, while providing us with no guidance on how to proceed in our social world.
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