A teoria crítica de Max Horkheimer

Abstract

The early work of Max Horkheimer has recently drawn the attention of many scholars who were eager to publish their understanding on the matter. Our work joins forces in the attempt to understand Horkheimer's early critical theory named as interdisciplinary materialism. To that extent, we have undertaken a metatheoretical approach in order to demonstrate two main aspects from Horkheimer theory which we came to realize: the centrality of the interdisciplinary research program which was supposed to integrate empirical research and philosophy, on the one hand, and the form by which his approach was an outcome both from the tasks that stems from social reality and from the metacritical approach that he undertook upon several theories, on the other. Our effort was then focused on analyzing metatheoretically the published papers of Horkheimer and to reintroduce it as a unified whole, redeeming the continuity of his writings and the before mentioned aspects.