A concepção da dupla dominação em Horkheimer (1930-1940)

Abstract

This paper aims to address the issue of domination that for us is very dear in high modernity and late modernity and, that it seems, relevant to a bigger and better understanding about Western civilization from barbarism in barbarism as a destiny paving his road to the decline. Our dissertation will discuss about the double domination hypothesis in Max Horkheimer (1898-1973) theoretical knowledgement about the issue. This research has taken a path that tried to conduct us to a comprehension on how the author did understand nature and man’s domination. We tried, in this work, not only to expose what it is meant by double domination, however, and above all, we had exposed how that bifurcated domination has happened continually since the beginning of the civilization. To be clear, we tried to follow a path that suggests us that there has been an evolution in duplicated domination, and this has made the difference on how our work was written to show what was the way that this evolution has occurred and how to identify it in our author works during the years 30tieth and 40tieth of the twentieth century, taking into account the historical, social, political, economic and psychological changes – climate in the thirties, we had started out by politics, in the forties we have an external nature domination that keeps itself on course controlled by positivist science and an inner nature domination, which concerns the formation of the individual ego in the civilization. Finally, we conclude that research exposing our particular view point at the side of short commentaries which we do believe that is properly the culmination of our thoughts above the theme and that it will serve to close with a personal opinion on the work as a whole.