Critical Theory

The term critical theory decreases/goes back on max of Horkheimers writing „traditional ones and critical theory “from 1937, in which it is occupied with the ideal and the enterprise of the nachkopernikanischen science. The critical theory understands itself as a practical philosophy, which it depends on the social change with the goal of increasing self-determination of humans. So it wants to distinguish itself from theoretical philosophy contentwise. It accuses to the traditional theory so called of Horkheimer, the civil science, to collect after as failed regarded clearing-up above all the facts and lose in instrumental use of the reason the future of humanity from the eyes.

The traditional theory is only concerned with the giving, which reduces it to measurable sizes. It makes itself servable thereby the solidification of the existing conditions. You lack reflection on the entwinement of science and rule conditions. The traditional theory cannot redeem their theoretical requirement of the value judgement freedom actually.

The critical theory tried in contrast to this a reason term to compile, not detached by its purposes existed, thus in purpose central rationality does not come up.

The critical theory meanwhile aims after conception of its founders off of examining the found social Totalität and their basic conditions due to of them the science with their carriers mostly as Replikatoren (casually expressed: uncritical „Nachplapperer “) of the social order not at all (or at least not yet), i.e. neither in the theoretical beginning, nor in their execution, which processing or the understanding of the won data can be objective. Therefore the critical theory pays stronger attention to the tension between the existence and the possible one and would like thereby the conditions for an organization and a change of the reality to create.