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MAAR, Wolfgang Leo. Politics, praxis and pseudo-activities in Adorno. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.1, pp.225-244. ISSN 1808-4281.

Although one finds very often assertions that Adorno has an aversion for praxis, this is a basic and foundational concept, articulated to Adorno's theoretical stand. The subject matter of Adorno's theoretical apprehensions is society understood as human self-production in all its dimensions. The social forms of society are, themselves, socially produced. Therefore politics should not be taken only as praxis on the realm of society, but it must be taken on the realm of its social and historical production. Social forms of the present society seem to be natural and immutable; what should be taken as political praxis appears as pseudo-activities of subjects that are objectively submitted to a merely adaptive order. Politics, as a construction of the true social whole, should take into account the social determinants of its existence in the present society, deciphering its genesis. Politics, to be objective in its actions to intervene in the determiners of its own production, cannot exist without theory

Palavras-chave : Adorno and Praxis; Dialectics of theory and praxis; Critical theory and politics,; Adorno and social objectivity.

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