Critical theory and social research

• Grant number: 12/23126-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: April 09, 2013
• End date: June 06, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Fundamentals of Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Severino Nobre
• Grantee: Marcos Severino Nobre
• Visiting researcher: Voirol Olivier
• Visiting researcher institution: Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/53030-6 - Morals, politics and law: autonomy and critical theory, AP.TEM

Abstract

As researcher of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, the visitor has the privileged qualification to collaborate in both the complementary fields of activity that constitute the Project, that is to say, the theoretical-epistemological level, and the applied researches on the fields of morals, politics, and law. On the theoretical-epistemological level, the Project intends to debate current contributions to the Critical Theoretical field, aiming at identifying the common elements that still allow to demarcate a specific theoretical field, as well as possible ruptures and continuities in this tradition. On the level of applied researches, the experience of the visitor in empirical researches within the Critical Theoretical frame of reference allows to make a productive discussion of the main results obtained so far in their link to the theoretical basis of the Project. The main tools chosen to reach these objectives will be those of the weekly work sessions with the teams of both subprojects as well as the realization of weekly workshops in which decisive moments of the history of the position of empirical research in Critical Theory and its actuality will be the object of a more detailed collective discussion. The visitor will then examine in which way the distinguishing marks of this tradition are present in the old as in the newest works, including his own researches, ongoing and already concluded. (AU)