A contribuição da noção de “emancipação”, como categoria analítica, para o debate moderno/pós-moderno.

Abstract

This Master's Thesis addresses the debate that revolves around the modern and the postmodern, and that for some decades now been dividing authors of the various areas of the humanities. Since Jean-François Lyotard published in Paris, in 1979 the book The Postmodern Condition, Habermas and the following year gave a speech entitled Modernity: an unfinished project, many intellectuals worldwide have devoted extensive efforts to study this theme. On one hand, there are authors which states that modernity is not over and those who defend the project of Enlightenment reason, on the other hand, many thinkers announce that we experience a time that is beyond the limits of modernity, ie the postmodernity. The discussion seems to be far from over and has raised more doubts than certainties. Therefore, this study is a survey which aims to demonstrate how the notion of emancipation corroborates so fundamental to understanding the debate modern/postmodern.