Excerpt: /360/ Reading Club: Legitimacy (III)

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On the 3rd and final part of Jurgen Habermas’ Legitimation Crisis.
 
 
We wrap up this challenging book by debating some key points. Habermas already felt we lived in a post-truth society. How does his notion differ from the contemporary one concerned with misinformation? And is it possible to get beyond the notion of political authority grounded in (arbitrary) rules and laws – to an order rooted in truth and meaning?
 
Habermas also discusses his Frankfurt School colleagues and ‘the end of the individual’. What does this mean? Is there any hope for free, rational, democratic politics?
 
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