Max Horkheimer: una crítica a la religión

Abstract

The author analyzes Max Horkheimer’s critic of religion from the critical theory in three different periods: during his youth; in the so-called «crisis stage», represented by the work Dialectic of Enlightenment; and in the final stage of his thought, to be followed from the essays and writings gathered in Longing for Justice. He also notes that while there is a criticism of religion, also understood as theology, we can also find a «rescue» of it by Horkheimer. The author argues that the rescuing of religion does not mean a surrender or abandonment of Critical Theory, rather, is a way to remain faithful to the practice proposed by it, a revolutionary praxis that seeks to solve the physical evil and the suffering of the victims of history.