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The subjective aspect of social domination: Nietzsches reception in Horkheimers critical theory from the 1930s and 1940s

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Author(s):
Simone Bernardete Fernandes
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Luiz Sergio Repa; John Duane Abromeit; Fernando Costa Mattos; Rurion Soares Melo
Advisor: Luiz Sergio Repa
Abstract

This dissertation thematizes the reception of Nietzsche\'s philosophy in Horkheimer\'s critical theory from the 1930s and 1940s, investigating how it is appropriated for an analysis of the obstacles to social emancipation situated in subjectivity, with reference to the concept of internalization [Verinnerlichung]. In the 1930s, the fixation of the individuals on authority and the manipulation of the masses are investigated through an analysis of the effects of the renunciation and the internalization of instincts, in the context of an anthropology of the bourgeois society. In the 1940s, Horkheimer and Adorno explicit the entailment of enlightened reason on domination, arising from the domination of oneself and of others that permeated the subjective formation since its pre-history, described with the resource to the idea of internalization of sacrifice. This dissertation intends to disclose the role of Nietzsche\'s philosophy in Horkheimer\'s thought, arguing, in the first place, that it goes back to the 1930s and it is not a consequence of Adorno\'s influence in the process of elaboration of the Dialects of Enlightenment, and, secondly, that the contradictions internal to this philosophy and its contradictions with critical theory are productive for Horkheimers philosophy. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/24880-5 - Reason and internalization of the sacrifice: the reception of Nietzsche's philosophy in Horkheimer's thought in the 1930's and 1940's
Grantee:Simone Bernardete Fernandes
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master