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GARCIA VELA, Alfonso  e  LONGONI MARTINEZ, Roberto. Jürgen Habermas’s Normative Shift as the Ontological Foundation of Critical Theory. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2020, vol.35, n.101, pp.9-33.  Epub 13-Set-2021. ISSN 2007-8358.

This article argues that Habermas’s transformation of Adorno and Horkheimer’s Critical Theory cannot be understood as a departure from Marxism. The authors maintain that Habermas’s normative shift transformed Critical Theory into a social ontology and that that is the decisive point of that transformation. They also argue that Adorno’s theory was an attempt to surpass the ontology and introduced the notion of “ontological necessity” to understand the social reason that feeds the popularity and success of contemporary ontologies, which differs radically from Habermas’s approach. They show that it is possible to recognize “ontological necessity” in Habermas’s project and discuss the theoretical and political implications of that.

Palavras-chave : Critical Theory; normative shift; social ontology; Adorno; Habermas.

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