O problema da técnica em Habermas

Abstract

The paper aims to discuss the problem of technology in Jürgen Habermas. It shows how the German philosopher overcomes Marcuse's criticism of technology and science as ideological manifestations of a historically situated social class, while linking both to the teleological rationality that is embedded in the development of the human species. Through the categories of work and interaction, Habermas points to the risks of colonization of the sphere of social interaction by instrumental rationality and argues that the construction of an emancipated society will only be possible if the sphere reserved for communicative rationality is protected against all forms of reification.