# Legitimation Crisis

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- Book: [Legitimation Crisis](https://www.bookquiver.com/jurgen-habermas/legitimation-crisis) ([Legitimation Crisis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jurgen-habermas/legitimation-crisis.md))
- Authors: [Jürgen Habermas](https://www.bookquiver.com/jurgen-habermas), [Tom McCarthy](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-mccarthy)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0701-521-6
- Pages: 196
- Published: 1975-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Critical Theory originated in the perception by a group of German Marxists after the First World War that the Marxist analysis of capitalism had become deficient both empirically and with regard to its...