O conceito de trágico na dialética do esclarecimento

Abstract

The search undertaken aims to analyze the concept of the tragic according to the perspective of the authors Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. The study has as reference the work Dialectics of Enlightenment, whose theory is absolutely relevant to the interpretation of the history of reason, as well as the context and the human condition in current society. Therefore, the analysis intends to understand the perspectives of Adorno and Horkheimer when they analyze the absence of tragic, assuming that the process of clarification was the main reason that led to the loss of tragicity in the contemporary period. For this, it is necessary to understand the relationship between myth and tragedy in the classical period as an embryonic moment of Greek tragedies and the basis of tragic thought. After that, it intends to analyze the clarification process more specifically from the dialectical clash between the Enlightenment thought of Immanuel Kant and the critical theory of Adorno and Horkheimer, making it possible, subsequently, to understand the relationship between clarification and myth. about the operators of the Culture Industry and their conclusions for the spectator. In this way, the clarification shows that its will not only be the main cause of the cancellation of the tragic in the contemporary world, however, especially, it also highlights the cancellation of the person himself.