The critique of social reason in the Popper–Adorno debate

IF 0.8 2区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Iaan Reynolds
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This article examines the differences and affinities between Karl Popper's critical rationalism and Theodor Adorno's critical theory through renewed attention to the original documents of their 1961 debate. While commentaries often describe the Popper–Adorno encounter as a theoretical disappointment, I reveal a confrontation between conceptually opposed programs of social research. Though both theorists are committed to critique as a political and epistemological struggle for human freedom, their conceptions of this struggle are starkly different. In the original seminar papers, we find a conflict between critique as a practice of social rationality (Popper) and a critique of social rationality itself (Adorno). The versions of critical rationalism and critical theory meeting in this debate thus emphasize opposite dimensions of a reflexive practice of immanent critique. In closing, I suggest dissolving this conceptual tension by recovering the educational orientation of critique.
波普尔-阿多诺论战中的社会理性批判
本文通过重新关注1961年波普尔批判理性主义和西奥多·阿多诺批判理论的原始文献,考察了它们之间的异同。虽然评论经常将波普尔-阿多诺的遭遇描述为理论上的失望,但我揭示了概念上对立的社会研究项目之间的对抗。尽管两位理论家都致力于将批判视为人类自由的政治和认识论斗争,但他们对这场斗争的概念截然不同。在最初的研讨会论文中,我们发现作为社会理性实践的批判(Popper)和对社会理性本身的批判(Adorno)之间存在冲突。因此,在这场辩论中,批判理性主义和批判理论的版本强调了内在批判的反身实践的相反维度。最后,我建议通过恢复批判的教育取向来化解这种概念张力。
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History of the Human Sciences
History of the Human Sciences 综合性期刊-科学史与科学哲学
CiteScore
1.60
自引率
11.10%
发文量
31
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: History of the Human Sciences aims to expand our understanding of the human world through a broad interdisciplinary approach. The journal will bring you critical articles from sociology, psychology, anthropology and politics, and link their interests with those of philosophy, literary criticism, art history, linguistics, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and law.
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