Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Habermas links, Habermas rechts


'Legitimacy problems can arise from a tension between capitalism and democracy (TCA, 2:345). The market economy provides a form of integration that does not satisfy the requirements for the reproduction of social order. It functions well because of institutional constraints that are not only sustained outside the logic of the market, but are opposed by this very logic. In cases where the market succeeds in undermining these institutional constraints, it places strains on the same cultural resources that are required for the legitimation of the polity.'"
Joseph Heath

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