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Author:   Jürgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780745606095

ISBN 10:   0745606091
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   25 August 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Translator's Introduction. Preface. Part I: A Social - Scientific Concept of Crisis:. 1. System and Life = World. 2. Some Constituents of Social Systems. 3. Illustration of Social Principles of Organization. 4. System Crisis Elucidated Through the Example of the. Liberal-Capitalist Crisis Cycle. Part II: Crisis Tendencies in Advanced Capitalism:. 1. A Descriptive Model of Advanced Capitalism. 2. Problems Resulting from Advanced - Capitalist Growth. 3. A Classification of Possible Crisis Tendencies. 4. Theorems of Economic Crisis. 5. Theorems of Rationality Crisis. 6. Theorems of Legitimation Crisis. 7. Theorems of Motivation Crisis. 8. A Backward Glance. Part III: On the Logic of Legitimation Problems:. 1. Max Weber's Concept of Legitimation. 2. The Relation of Practical Questions to Truth. 3. The Model of the Suppression of Generalizable Interests. 4. The End of the Individual?. 5. Complexity and Democracy. 6. Partiality for Reason. Notes. Index.

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The outstanding representative of the post-war generation of Frankfurt School social theorists, Habermas has gained a growing international reputation for his attempt to reconceptualize the basic categories of critical theory beginning with Marx - even though his work is abstruse enough to be virtually inaccessible to the lay reader. Best known here for Knowledge and Human Interests (1972) - a critique of modern empiricism - Habermas has recently occupied the center stage within the Federal Republic itself, in a prolonged Methodenstreit with the various positivist and technocratic currents in German sociology which share a common descent from Max Weber. Legitimation Crisis is conceived against this polemical background. Arguing that neither systems theory nor orthodox Marxism can give adequate expression to the particular crisis logic of advanced capitalism, Habermas proposes the central notion of legitimation deficit - the unmasking of power relations occasioned by the collapse of the basic bourgeois ideology of fair exchange. While in agreement with the classical Frankfurt principle that unbridled technological expansion has transformed reason into a pragmatic instrumental rationality, Habermas shares little of the pessimistic resignation of the late Horkheimer and Adorno. Seeing instead a growing human potentiality for self-reflection in collective rational discourse, he points the way toward a liberating political praxis grounded in mass participation and consensual will-formation - a message that has influenced New Left theoreticians here as well as abroad. A substantial addition to what is already a major achievement. For specialists only. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. In 2014, Prospect readers chose Habermas as one of their favourites among the ""world's leading thinkers"".

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