Legitimation Crisis
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"Legitimation Crisis" is a major work of critical social theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes how advanced capitalist societies face systemic crises when their political and social institutions lose public trust and normative justification.
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| Legitimation Crisis canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
book
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work of critical social theory ⓘ |
| addresses |
advanced capitalist societies
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welfare state capitalism ⓘ |
| argues |
crises can shift from the economic system to the political and socio-cultural systems
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political systems must secure mass loyalty through normative justification ⓘ state intervention in the economy generates new legitimation demands ⓘ |
| author | Jürgen Habermas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
administrative state
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normative justification ⓘ public sphere ⓘ social integration ⓘ steering media ⓘ system integration ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
philosophy
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political science ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| genre |
critical theory
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political sociology ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | Legitimation Crisis (English edition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
analysis of economic crises
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analysis of legitimation crises ⓘ analysis of motivation crises ⓘ analysis of rationality crises ⓘ |
| influenced |
later debates on governance and legitimacy
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legitimacy theory in political science ⓘ political sociology of the welfare state ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Frankfurt School
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Karl Marx ⓘ Max Weber NERFINISHED ⓘ Talcott Parsons NERFINISHED ⓘ Émile Durkheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
crisis tendencies of late capitalism
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legitimation crisis in advanced capitalism ⓘ political legitimacy ⓘ systems theory and social integration ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
distinction between system and lifeworld
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typology of crisis tendencies in late capitalism ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proposes | link between systemic crises and loss of legitimacy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| publisher | Suhrkamp Verlag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
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The Theory of Communicative Action NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework |
critical theory of the Frankfurt School
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systems theory ⓘ |
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