Crítica institucional a la razón instrumental: la respuesta de la teoría crítica al pronóstico de Max Weber

Abstract

This thesis aims to offer a new narrative on the problem of the instrumen-tal use of reason in modern societies. To do this it explores the idea that social institutions, in exercising their characteristic praxis, can provide an alternative model of reason. Institutions related to the family, politics, religion or the market offer spaces where reason can be re-enchanted starting with the very human relationships exercised in them. To analyze this issue, this thesis starts with Weber's prognosis of the ra-tionalization process and also includes the critical perspective that the most representative members of the Frankfurt School offer, in as far as critical theory has historically been devoted to diagnosing instrumental reason. This thesis thus concludes that only social institutions can offer an effective critique of instrumental reason.

En esta investigación se ofrece una nueva narrativa del problema de uso instrumental de la razón en las sociedades modernas. Para ello se explora la idea de que las instituciones sociales, en el ejercicio de su praxis característica,puedan proveer un modelo de razón alternativo. Instancias como la familia, la polística, el mercado o la religión; ofrecen espacios de reencantamiento de la razón desde el modo propio de la razón desde el modo propio de la relación humana que se ejercita en ellos.