CRITICISM AND EMANCIPATION
Abstract
Critical theory is first and foremost a critique of modernity, namely, a critique to its universal ideals of reason, progress and history, teleologically understood. Marx is the always present author who dialogues with dialogues with different generations of critical theorists, given that a critique of modernity starts with a critique to capitalism which is temporal and spatially located and which is today in its most advanced form. Therefore, critical theory is a historical theory, on the one hand, since it captures the evolution and historical dynamics of capitalism’s central concepts; and it is also social theory, reflecting upon the actual social state of affairs. What makes of critical theory critical? And how should we understand the critical task today? This paper tries to answer this question, putting into dialogue Horkheimer and Adorno, on the one hand, and Celikates and Jaeggi, on the other.Downloads
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