TY  - BOOK
AU  - Habermas,Jürgen
TI  - Legitimation crisis
SN  - 0807015202
AV  - HC54 .H213 1975
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Economic history
KW  - 1971-1990
KW  - Social history
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Translation of Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Offers a Marxian theory of communicative competence for application to the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Bibliogs
ER  -