Max Horkheimer: the project of critical theory and its formative character
This article aims to reflect on the formative character that is at the base of Critical Theory, especially in the thought of Max Horkheimer, whose analyzes turn to the social, political, economic and cultural factors that, permeated by the concept of bourgeois rationality, inspire the irrationality...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Campos dos Goytacazes |
| Repositorio: | Vértices (Campos dos Goitacazes. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.editoraessentia.iff.edu.br:article/19095 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://editoraessentia.iff.edu.br/index.php/vertices/article/view/19095 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Max Horkheimer Teoria Crítica Subjetividade Razão instrumental la teoría crítica subjetividad razón instrumental critical theory subjectivity instrumental reason |
| Sumario: | This article aims to reflect on the formative character that is at the base of Critical Theory, especially in the thought of Max Horkheimer, whose analyzes turn to the social, political, economic and cultural factors that, permeated by the concept of bourgeois rationality, inspire the irrationality of the productive and political-cultural dynamics of the early 20th century. In this sense, the critique of reason that becomes an instrument of the domain of developed industrial society, of the culture that is reified in consumer products and of the subjectivity shaped by psychosocial factors of the civilizing process is fundamental to Horkheimer's project. The analysis of positive rationality elevates the project to the delimitation of the boundaries between traditional theory and critical theory and makes it possible to denounce the limits of reason that mythifies itself. In this aspect, Horkheimer seeks to substantiate the critical character of rationality, in the sense of overcoming the historical blindness to which he allowed himself to be submitted. |
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