Abstract

CHAVES, Juliana de Castro. KARL MARX AND CRITICAL THEORY: A NECESSARY INFLECTION FOR THE PRAXIS OF MEDIA AND FORMATION KNOWLEDGE. Rev. Comunic [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.2, pp.151-166. ISSN 2238-121X.  https://doi.org/10.15600/2238-121X/comunicacoes.v24n2p151-166.

This article aims to discuss some contributions of Karl Marx, which are also foundations for Critical Theory, in order to reflect on the importance of praxis in the production of knowledge about media and formation. In order to make this debate, we retake and prioritize both Marx’s contributions in his dialogue with philosophy and economists, classical political economy, regarding the method that reveals and transforms reality, such as Horkheimer’s debate with the foundations of Marx to differentiate the Critical Theory from Traditional Theory, and to warn how much the production of a certain knowledge can reproduce an unequal society. Revealing the contradictions, the relation between all and part, overcoming the immediate, the apparent, deciphering the determinations of the real and approaching the social production of any object searched is fundamental to critical knowledge. To problematize production in the midst of the primacy of representation in the studies on media and formation makes a turning that demarcates the differentiation of critical studies and of praxis necessary to nowadays.

Keywords : KARL MARX; CRITICAL THEORY; PRAXIS; MEDIA AND FORMATION.

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