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Fromm y Horkheimer. Sobre los elementos fundamentales de la antropología en la Teoría Crítica

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This article is based on ideas developed in my doctoral thesis, Crítica da autoridade: dominação e emancipação na obra de Max Horkheimer (“Critique of authority: domination and emancipation in the work of Max Horkheimer”), supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Ricardo Musse and defended in September 2017 at São Paulo University. This study was financed by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) and CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), both of them Brazilian federal agencies for the development of scientific researchErich Fromm was central to the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research under the direction of Max Horkheimer, but the works of each author, while handling at times similar issues, took different paths. The article’s aim is to analyze how Horkheimer’s anthropology, which would be of importance in Dialectic of Enlightenment, was built as the author embodied in his essays elements of Fromm’s social psychology, albeit overcoming some of its limitations, as well as suggesting new potentials of critiqueErich Fromm fue fundamental para el Instituto de Investigación Social de Frankfurt dirigido por Max Horkheimer, pero las obras de cada autor, mientras que a veces se enfrentaban a problemas similares, siguieron caminos diferentes. El objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo la antropología de Horkheimer, importante en la Dialéctica de la Ilustración, se construyó cuando el autor incorporaba elementos de la psicología social de Fromm, aunque superaba sus limitaciones y sugería nuevos potenciales de crític

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