Legitimation crisis

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Habermas, Jürgen, 1929- (autor)
Other Authors: McCarthy, Thomas, 1926- (traductor)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, ©1975
Series:Beacon paperbacks ; 519
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A social-scientific concept of crisis
  • System and life-world
  • Some constituents of social systems
  • Illustration of social principles of organization
  • System crisis elucidated through the example of the liberal-capitalist crisis cycle
  • Crisis tendencies in advanced capitalism
  • A descriptive model of advanced capitalism
  • Problems resulting from advanced-capitalist growth
  • A classification of possible crisis tendencies
  • Theorems of economic crisis
  • Theorems of rationality crisis
  • Theorems of legitimation crisis
  • Theorems of motivation crisis
  • A backward glance
  • On the logic of legitimation problems
  • Max Weber's concept of legitimation
  • The relation of practical questions to truth
  • The model of the suppression of generalizable interests
  • The end of the individual?
  • Complexity and democracy
  • Partiality for reason.