Razão e sociedade : da crítica do poder à potência da crítica

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Hilário, Leomir Cardoso
• Orientador(a): Cunha, Eduardo Leal
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Teoria crítica; Escola de Frankfurt; Foucault; Razão e sociedade
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Critical theory; Frankfurt School; Reason and society
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5986

The objectives of this work are (1) to analyze the core elements of Axel Honneth s critique Michel Foucault s thought in The Critique of Power, by linking it with his analysis of the work of the "inner circle" of the Frankfurt school, especially Adorno and Horkheimer. Thus it is understood that Honneth makes an approximation between Foucault's thinking and the Frankfurt School critical tradition, emphasizing common deficiencies that indicate an affiliation between these authors, while at the same time noting their failures in the analysis of contemporary society. Such a reading, despite its innovation in putting side by side Foucault and Habermas as rival developers of critical theory, is limited in not considering the reorientation in Foucault s thought from 1978 on, and in not identifying the notions of power and domination as problematic. These limitations do not preclude sustaining a convergence between Foucault's thinking and that of the Frankfurt school, thinking of it in a positive fashion that is not restricted to the limitations of its critical tools, and instead focusing on the radicality of such criticism, making it possible to highlight its relevance; (2) starts from the point of view held by Axel Honneth that Foucault and Habermas are understood as rival developments of the Frankfurt School, Adorno and Horkheimer in particular. We propose that the conduct is before the Enlightenment that departs from Habermas and Honneth Adorno/Horkheimer and Foucault. We conducted a rapprochement between Foucault and the Frankfurt School which relies initially on critical Honneth much as the other one, then to overcome it, showing at the same time, the common point and the reasons for that are not confused; (3) seek to reflect on the point from which Habermas and Lukács argues the obsolescence of the social criticism of the first generation Frankfurt School, Adorno in particular, namely the idea that the radical critique of rationality articulated with social analysis of capitalism would inevitably lead to an analytic aporia which could only be overcome by the paradigm shift within the critical theory. Focusing as Adorno seeks to maintain the aporetic situation of social criticism, we seek to resize the aporia taking it out of the record insurmountable obstacle to the condition of possibility of the critical exercise.