The vicissitudes of the politics of "life"

The following article attempts to clarify the ambivalent relationship that Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse developed with the vitalist and phenomenological tendencies that permeated philosophy and the social sciences during the Weimar Republic. More precisely, it traces how both thinkers, in spit...

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Autor: Abromeit, John
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:203274
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/203274
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1231
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Frankfurt School
Critical theory
Irrationalism
Conservative revolution
Escola de Frankfurt
Teoria crítica
Irracionalisme
Revolució conservadora
Escuela de Fráncfort
Teoría crítica
Irracionalismo
Revolución conservadora
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Sumario:The following article attempts to clarify the ambivalent relationship that Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse developed with the vitalist and phenomenological tendencies that permeated philosophy and the social sciences during the Weimar Republic. More precisely, it traces how both thinkers, in spite of acknowledging the "truth moment" contained in the criticism that the philosophical exponents of both movements (Husserl, Bergson, Dilthey) developed of 19th century positivism, also recognized in its shallow popularization the advancement of a dangerous philosophical irrationalism, suspicious of science and Enlightenment values, that would soon become an accomplice to the rise of fascism.