Humanities Sciences
Critical Theory and Culture Criticism
RAFAEL RODRIGUES GARCIA

RAFAEL RODRIGUES GARCIA

MS3.2 — Professor Doutor II

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Institute of Philosophy and Humanities
DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOSOFIA
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GARCIA, Rafael R. GARCIA, RAFAEL RODRIGUES GARCIA, R. Garcia, Rafael

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Professor de História da Filosofia Contemporânea, Ética e Filosofia Política no Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (IFCH-UNICAMP). Bacharel, licenciado, mestre e doutor pela Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Membro da Internationale Ernst Cassirer Gesellschaft. Membro colaborador do Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos da Universidade de Coimbra. Líder do grupo de pesquisa Neokantismo e Filosofia da cultura. Membro dos grupos de pesquisa Origens da Filosofia Contemporânea e Filosofia da Cultura (CNPq). Autor de Genealogia da Crítica da Cultura (2014), coorganizador das coletâneas Antropologia da Individuação (2017) e Ernst Cassirer: Geografia e Filosofia (2019).

We intend to investigate some methodological and thematic common points and contrasts between two of the main philosophers from the first generation of Critical Philosophy – Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer –, on the one hand, and Ernst Cassirer, heir of the Marburger School of Neokantianism, on the other hand. With special attention to Cassirer’s The Myth of the State, from 1946, and The Dialectic of Enlightenment, published in 1947 by Adorno and Horkheimer, we aim to approximate their approach to the general philosophical question of culture and the emergence of totalitarianism: in both perspectives we find a critic of their time as one in which the reason – already instrumentalized at the time – is subdued by the power of mythical thinking, which leads

totalitarianism mythical thought critic of culture
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