Para um debate entre subjetividade e pensamento técnico-científico em diálogo com Adorno e Horkheimer

Abstract

This article considers the issue of subjectivity and technical-scientific knowledge from the perspective of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), above all, in the text Dialectic of Enlightenment (1985), with the objective to identify, based on the critique of Kantian concept of enlightenment, whether it is possible to have the subject's autonomy, conserving technical-scientific knowledge as the only valid form of knowledge. The modus operandi of this knowledge, transmutes the thinking subject into a technical operator to produce merchandise in capitalist society, converting autonomy into technical-productive improvement. With this, men and machines are unified, both by the language of science and in the serial production of goods. The search for the effectiveness and usefulness of knowledge, instead of encouraging man to strive to make use of his understanding on his own, to avoid external interference in his decisions, on the contrary, leads him to a competition with machines, renouncing , gradually, its subjectivity to adapt to the domination mechanisms of capitalist society