Critical Humanism as critical social research

About the centenary of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt

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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v17i34.749

Abstract

The article aims to update "Critical Humanism" from the legacy of the Frankfurt School. In the first part, it argues that the "abolition of the human being" is a real tendency of our current societies (1) and that this tendency is made visible through a committed critique of "neoliberal modernity" (2). The second section explains what is understood here by "Critical Humanism", dealing with one of the most current proposals to define this concept (3). However, the concept as it is used here is oriented in the works of the Frankfurt School of which are discussed for reasons of space only those of Max Horkheimer (4) and Theodor W. Adorno (5). The central argument of the article is that from the perspective of the Frankfurt School, Critical Humanism can be understood as a practice of critical social research.

Author Biography

Oliver Kozlarek, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Oliver Kozlarek es doctor en Filosofía  por la Universidad Libre de Berlín. Doctor en Humanidades por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México. Enseña e investiga en la Facultud de Filosofía “Samuel Ramos” de la UMSNH. Ha sido profesor visitante (entre otras) en el la Universidad de Vechta (en Alemania), New School for Social Research en Nueva York, Universidad de Stanford,  Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Libre de Berlín,  Universidad Nacional de Australia.

Entre sus últimos libros editados y escritos figuran:

· Modernidad como conciencia del mundo. Ideas para una teoría social humanista (Siglo XXI: 2014)

· Postcolonial Reconstruction: A sociological Reading of Octavio Paz (Springer 2016)

· Pluralidad y unidad de la Teoría Crítica. Perspectivas desde las ciencias de la cultura (Springer 2020).

· The Critical Humanism of the Frankfurt School as Social Critique (Rowman & Littlefield, mayo 2024).

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Published

2024-07-01

How to Cite

Kozlarek, O. (2024). Critical Humanism as critical social research: About the centenary of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Valenciana, 17(34), 59–88. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v17i34.749

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No. 34 (2024): Valenciana, julio-diciembre 2024

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