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Legitimation Crisis (German: Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus) is a 1973 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas. It was published in English in 1975 by Beacon Press, translated and with an introduction by Thomas McCarthy .
German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas was the first to use the term "legitimation crisis," which he defined in his 1973 book Legitimation Crisis. [4] A legitimation crisis is an identity crisis that results from a loss of confidence in administrative institutions, which occurs despite the fact that they still retain legal ...
The Theory of Communicative Action (German: Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns) is a two-volume 1981 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author continues his project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language", [1] which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967).
According to Habermas, the "substantive" (i.e. formally and semantically integrated) rationality that characterized pre-modern worldviews has, since modern times, been emptied of its content and divided into three purely "formal" realms: (1) cognitive-instrumental reason; (2) moral-practical reason; and (3) aesthetic-expressive reason.
Jürgen Habermas (UK: / ˈ h ɑː b ər m æ s /, US: /-m ɑː s /; [2] German: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈhaːbɐmaːs] ⓘ; [3] [4] born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.
Habermas notes the rise of institutions of public debate in late seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain and France especially. In these nations, information exchange and communication methods pioneered by capitalist merchants became adapted to novel purposes and were employed as an outlet for the public use of reason.
Habermas during a discussion in the Munich School of Philosophy 2008. The works of the German sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929) include books, papers, contributions to journals, periodicals, newspapers, lectures given at conferences and seminars, reviews of works by other authors, and dialogues and speeches given in various occasions.
Jürgen Habermas. Legitimation Crisis; The Theory of Communicative Action, volumes 1 & 2; The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity; Wolfgang Iser. The Act of Reading: a Theory of Aesthetic Response; Leonard Jackson. The Poverty of Structuralism; Fredric Jameson. The Political Unconscious; Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism