Saber, abstração e poder na Dialética do esclarecimento: um comentário crítico

Knowledge, abstraction and power in dialectic of enlightenment: a critical commentary

  • Este artigo aborda criticamente alguns conceitos referentes ao vínculo entre racionalidade, abstração e poder, tomados em contraste com a noção de mímesis, tal como Adorno e Horkheimer concebem na Dialética do esclarecimento. Partindo da diferenciação de quatro conceitos de esclarecimento, procuramos demonstrar o caráter inadequado da equalização entre esclarecimento e exercício violento e ideológico do poder, mostrando como o conceito de abstração, que nos parece servir de base para o primeiro capítulo daquela obra, permite delinear melhor a cisão entre as formas de conhecimento miméticas e as que lhe sucederam, tomando como ponto de partida a concepção mítica grega arcaica.
  • This paper discusses critically some concepts concerning the relationship between rationality, abstraction and power, taken in contrast with the notion of mimesis, as conceived by Adorno and Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment. From the differentiation of four concepts of enlightenment, we demonstrate the inappropriate character of equalization between enlightenment violent and ideological exercise of power, showing how the concept of abstraction, which seems the basis for the first chapter of that work, allows a better delineation of the split between the mimetic forms of knowledge and its successor, taking as its starting point the mythical conception in the ancient Greek.

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Author:Verlaine FreitasORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-569734
DOI:https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2014.2.12252
ISSN:1984-6746
ISSN:0042-3955
Parent Title (German):Veritas
Publisher:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Place of publication:Porto Alegre
Document Type:Article
Language:Portuguese
Date of Publication (online):2015/03/25
Year of first Publication:2014
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/12/01
Tag:Abstraction; Dialectic of Enlightenment; Knowledge; Power
Abstração; Dialética do esclarecimento; Poder; Saber
Volume:59
Issue:2
Page Number:26
First Page:e20
Last Page:e45
HeBIS-PPN:477916147
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften / Philosophie
Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Institut für Sozialforschung (IFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0