One of his works posits freedom, equality, and consensus must precede the universal validity required for discourse ethics.
This thinker divided social formations into primitive, traditional, and liberal-capitalist categories in a work that labeled social crises as "unresolved economic steering problems." This author of Legitimation Crisis discussed the "dissolution of epistemology" in Knowledge and Human Interests. One of his works posits freedom, equality, and consensus must precede the universal validity required for discourse ethics. His most famous work proposes that coffeehouses developed in the eighteenth century to mediate the state and society. For 10 points, name this German author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and The Theory of Communicative Action.
This thinker divided social formations into primitive, traditional, and liberal-capitalist categories in a work that labeled social crises as "unresolved economic steering problems.
Jurgen {Habermas}