Need and individuation

Abstract

The modern capitalist societies critique is now mediated by the critique of the individual - the gap between psyche and culture is not maintained when a strong trend for an one-dimensional society submerges the particular into the totalitarian universal. For this reason, the knowledge of human subjectivity is not an exclusive goal of psychologists intending to penetrate into the psychical imanence. The critical philosophers have the same intention, too - and the proof are the frankfurteans' studies on authoritarianism in the 40's. We shall introduce some aspects of Agnes Heller(1929-) philosophical work concerning about the individual's issue and the urgency of a theory of Morals that would serve as a guide for human praxis in our modern societies.