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The Unavoidable Malaise

Author(s): Dimitar Krastev
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Humanities; legitimation crisis; Modernity and Postmodernity; compensation theory; Joachim Ritter’s school
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the problem of the legitimation crisis and strategies of legitimizing the Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century. Much attention is given to the relationship between Charles Taylor’s theory of The Malaise of Modernity and Hermann Lübbe and Odo Marquard’s views on the acceleration of social change and the Unavoidability of the Human Sciences.