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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 ...
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 .
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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
According to Habermas, the notion of the "public sphere" began evolving during the Renaissance in Western Europe.Brought on partially by merchants' need for accurate information about distant markets as well as by the growth of democracy and individual liberty and popular sovereignty, the public sphere was a place between private individuals and government authorities in which people could ...
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).
Habermas was born in Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, in 1929. [7] He was born with a cleft palate and had corrective surgery twice during childhood. [8] Habermas argues that his speech disability made him think differently about the importance of deep dependence and of communication. [9]