التحولات المعرفية في النظرية النقدية الاجتماعية

Abstract EN

This study seeked to highlight the cognitive dimension in social critical theory at the Frankfurt School, by tracking the cognitive transformations which aimed to monetize the social reality in order to reveal the mystery and confusion left by world wars and every reason that disable the thought, starting from feeling of the need to establishing a critical theory greater than traditional theory, where built in the mind to explore the society's contradictions by addressing the dialectics of enlightenment that contributed to understanding the movement's logic of mind and civilization in western rationality, then move on to emphasize the value of libertarian mind through the negative dialectics, then switch to criticism the positive trend in order to demonstrate the philosophy role by rejecting post-technical rationality and finally the imparting new terms for the analysis, knowledge and sciences associated with the interests and activities.

In this study the historical analytical approach was adopted, based on the analysis of the concept or idea and explore how to apply to reach the underlying principle in analysis the human knowledge, also, the criticism methodology was used to observe the similarities and differences between philosophy in its cognitive and philosophical transformation