Legitimation Crisis is a 1973 book by the philosopher Jurgen Habermas, published in English in 1975 by Beacon Press in a translation by Thomas McCarthy. Its title refers to a decline in confidence in administrative functions, institutions or leadership, a legitimation crisis; the direct translation of the German title is Legitimation Problems in Late Capitalism. Published five years after Knowledge and Human Interests, the book explores crisis tendencies in state-managed capitalism, contrasting an earlier capitalism concerned primarily with maintaining the market economy against a state-managed capitalism in which states take on additional roles such as healthcare, pensions and education.
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Source Jürgen Habermas (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Legitimation crisis refers to a decline in the confidence of administrative functions, institutions, or leadership.
In Group: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Political Works, Lead paragraph
The term was first introduced in 1973 by Jürgen Habermas, a German sociologist and philosopher.
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In Legitimation Crisis Habermas had explored the idea
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