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Description of research activity:

Research on Critical Theory in social sciences and humanities. Research and translations are carried out on authors related to the Research Institute of the University of Frankfurt, home of the so-called Critical Theory in philosophy and sociology, such as: T. W. Adorno, W. Benjamin, J. Habermas, A. Honneth, S. Kracauer, etc., as well as its sources in the philosophy of Hegel and Marx. This research is applied to philosophical (aesthetics, philosophy of law, history of philosophy, theory of the arts) and sociological (sociological discourse analysis, discrimination, sociological theory) fields. The research group collaborates with the social science doctoral lines on social pathologies, pathologies of reason and social and sociological theory.

 
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • Reactualizar y difundir la Teoria Critica y responder desde la fundamentacion historico-conceptual a problemas actuales.