The Current Metamorphosis of Instrumental Rationality  

作　　者：Michael Hauser 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2014年第7期517-523,共7页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：In the first part, the concept of instrumental reason is defended. Although we live in the age of pluralism, in which a tendency prevails to put all types of rationality on the same plane, there is a rationality that has a unique position： the instrumental rationality. The article then examines Luk^ics＇s roots of this concept and its elaboration by Adomo and Horkheimer. The second part refers to the current transformation of instrumental reason that these authors could not register. Instrumental reason changes so that it can connect several seemingly incoherent elements： postmodern non-objectivity, social and ecological normativity, and reified imperatives of capitalism. This formation is here called over-instrumental instrumental reason. In conclusion, the article deals with the question of how its non-instrumental component to exempt from its instrumental ones.

关 键 词：instrumental reason Luk^cs ADORNO Horkheimer postmodem pluralism CAPITALISM 

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