Incorporates the modifications of the Frankfurt School in a critique of capitalism. Drawing on systems theory and phenomenological sociology, as well as Marxism, Habermas looks at four levels of capitalist crisis - economic crisis, rationality crisis, legitimation crisis and motivational crisis.

Incorporates the modifications of the Frankfurt School in a critique of capitalism. Drawing on systems theory and phenomenological sociology, as well as Marxism, Habermas looks at four levels of capitalist crisis - economic crisis, rationality crisis, legitimation crisis and motivational crisis.