Abstract

ROGGERONE, Santiago M.. Critical Knowledge and Emancipatory Interest, or the Frankfurt School and Its Three Aitches. Folios [online]. 2018, n.48, pp.153-166. ISSN 0123-4870.

Aiming to reconstruct how the project of the critical theory of society has acquired its main determinations, in this paper, which follows a broader research on contemporary Marxism, we address some of the contributions made by Max Horkheimer, Jürgen Habermas, and Axel Honneth. More specifically, we examine the purposes and tasks that each of these Frankfurt School thinkers prescribe to critical theory with the intention of solving the problem of the underlying link between (critical) knowledge and (emancipatory) interest. To that end, we proceed as follows: first, we analyze how the original idea of a critical theory arises as opposed to that of a traditional theory (I); after this, we investigate how the idea in question is detached from its Marxist anthropological connotations and inscribed in the context of a theory of communicative action (II); then, we talk about the update that this context of inscription of critical theory experiences when it is rethought in terms of the social struggle for recognition (III); and, finally, we present a series of conclusions (IV).

Keywords : knowledge; interest; Horkheimer; Habermas; Honneth.

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