Immanent criticism and ideology. Normativity at the heart of a the renewal of a project

Authors

  • Leandro Paolicchi Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina

Keywords:

Criticism of ideologies, Frankfurt School, Normativity

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to address how a project of ideological criticism can be understood in a context that is different from the one that used to frame research in this field in the 1960s and 1970s and which seems to have fallen into disuse. Taking up certain features of Hegelian Marxism from the Frankfurt School, the aim is to demarcate a possible scope for the return of a critical exercise of ideological systems and apparatuses. The idea that it is tried to defend is that the critique of ideology understood in the way of an immanent criticism can be a form to revitalize this procedure in a scenario of deflationary conceptions of truth, reality and science. Anyway, this critical exercise cannot be understood in a "non-normative" way, because there is the risk of being conceived in a merely socio-anthropological way and therefore apologetic of domination relations.

Author Biography

  • Leandro Paolicchi, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
    Doctor of Philosophy from the National University of Lanús (UNLa), Argentina. He works as a teacher within the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina). He is currently an Assistant Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). As a fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) he has carried out doctoral (2012) and postdoctoral (2014) studies at the Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main under the direction of Axel Honneth. He is the author of the books "Discourse and Facticity" (Mar del Plata, Suárez, 2009) and "Praxis, sense and normativity. Towards a pragmatic reconstruction of human actions ”(Buenos Aires, Prometeo, 2014). His main lines of research are theories of discourse and contemporary social and political philosophy.

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2020-08-08

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Immanent criticism and ideology. Normativity at the heart of a the renewal of a project. (2020). Revista Ética Y Discurso, 5, 1-12. https://qellqasqa.com.ar/ojs/index.php/eyd/article/view/394