Name: Legitimation Crisis
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Author: Jürgen Habermas
ISBN: 9780807015216

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jürgen Habermas

Publisher

Beacon Press

Year

1975

Language

English

Pages

196

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.45

ISBN13

9780807015216

Edition No.

Synopsis "Legitimation Crisis "

Critical Theory originated in the perception by a group of German Marxists after the First World War that the Marxist analysis of capitalism had become deficient both empirically and with regard to its consequences for emancipation, and much of their work has attempted to deepen and extend it in new circumstances. Yet much of this revision has been in the form of piecemeal modification. In his latest work, Habermas has returned to the study of capitalism, incorporating the distinctive modifications of the Frankfurt School into the foundations of the critique of capitalism. Drawing on both systems theory and phenomenological sociology as well as Marxism, the author distinguishes four levels of capitalist crisis - economic, rationality, legitimation, and motivational crises. In his analysis, all the Frankfurt focus on cultural, personality, and authority structures finds its place, but in a systematic framework. At the same time, in his sketch of communicative ethics as the highest stage in the internal logic of the evolution of ethical systems, the author hints at the source of a new political practice that incorporates the imperatives of evolutionary rationality.

Jürgen Habermas

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Jürgen Habermas (Düsseldorf, 1929) is a German philosopher and sociologist, considered one of the most influential figures in contemporary critical theory and the main representative of the second generation of the Frankfurt School. His work spans political philosophy, ethics, legal theory, and philosophy of language. Among his most notable contributions are the theory of communicative action, discourse ethics, and the concept of deliberative democracy.

Among his most important works are The Theory of Communicative Action (1981), Between Facts and Norms (1992), and A History of Philosophy (2019). Habermas has been recognized with numerous international awards, such as the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2003), the Kyoto Prize (2004), the Holberg Prize (2005), the Erasmus Prize (2013), and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (2024).

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