Shifting Loyalties: Critical Theory & the Problem of Legitimacy

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Students of society are increasingly relating the legitimacy crisis facing industrial nations to the erosion of moral traditions. Habermas sees the problem as a historical crisis and calls for the reconstruction of our understanding of moral authority on the basis of practical reason, on which justice and truth rest. The key to our understanding of growth problems is to be found in our cultural situation rather than in the formalistic functional or instrumental theories of positivism. William Sullivan sees a major problem of Habermas's approach, which he subjects to careful examination, in the relation of theoretical understanding to engaged critical activity.

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