The disenchantment of the world and the process of human thingification in the vision of adorn and Horkheimer: the negation of metaphysical philosophy in Aristotle and the dehumanization of man

Abstract

Abstract: the present work aims to make some considerations in order to rethink the process of thingification[1] of the man initiated in the modern era and its resonances for education, a process that sought to discredit the metaphysical philosophy and to include in the field of mythical interpretations any explanation of reality that did not legitimize the presuppositions of the modern positivist method. Adorno and Horkheimer in "Dialectic of Enlightenment" sought to go this route and exposed the results of the barbarity of the process. Is the modern scientific method and the positivist assumptions infallible? We propose to dialogue with these themes in order to rescue the critics of these thinkers about the process of organization of modern society and its values, which made possible a historical moment of dehumanization of man to the detriment of selfishness, greed and power. The education in this context was directed to attend to the interests of the managers of the social imaginary, in order to reinforce the assumptions of infallible truth that legitimized the totalizing discourses. After rescue the critics of the authors, we will advance a little to postmodernity and discuss the resonances of such assumptions in the current paradigm, which reinforce the criticism woven by Adorno and Horkheimer and demonstrate that the infallibility of the sciences lacks sustainability itself . In this way we will try to portray some concepts about this process and the consequences in the way we operate the knowledge in the contemporary.

Recebido: 23/03/2019

Aceito: 01/05/2019