THE DEVIATIONS FROM REASON

a reading from Habermas and critics of Modernity

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reflect on the directions taken by modern reason. However, it is not a matter of nurturing an angry speech against the conceptual systematization of the West. It has as meditative prism polemizing about the deterioration of a reason of Enlightenment that, in its initial projects, sustained values ​​such as freedom, emancipation and human perfectibility, however, over the centuries, established violence and fury against the non-identical others and external to the “embracing concept”. In order to concretize the program outlined in this text, Habermas is the author with whom I most dialogue, however, I also evoke some critical thinkers of a calculating, narcissistic and biopolitical Modernity, which is opposed to the surrounding vital world, making rationality an element solely a priori and therefore a-historical.