Between pessimism and abstract Utopia. Technique and transformation in Max Horkheimer

Autor: Paula García Cherep
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: HYBRIS: Revista de Filosofía, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 149-173 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0718-8382
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3872147
Popis: This work aims to reveal as an ungrounded prejudice the widespread notion according to which Max Horkheimer has a purely negative and pessimistic view regarding technical progress. We will show that Horkheimer conceives the birth of modern technique as inseparable from the bourgeois emancipation process. Horkheimer understands that the technique loses its emancipatory potential, becoming an instrument for the perpetuation of an oppressive system once the bourgeoisie stablishes itself as a ruling class. However, that same instrument allows Horkheimer to glimpse a true possibility of social transformation.
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