O Moloch do presente: Adorno e a crítica à sociologia

Abstract

This text is a interpretation of the essays in which Theodor Adorno criticizes classic authors of sociology and discusses the sociological problems of his time. This investigation don't have the aim of to detect the influences that certain authors by chance would have over the Theodor Adorno's thoughts, but to show how his social theory can be rebuilt starting from his criticism of the sociological tradition. I intend to show that, by dealing with the sociology's "history", positioning himself before the scientific polemics and controversies, Adorno perform a widening the comprehension of the sociological experience leading to the last consequences the project of understanding of the social processes through the criticism to modern sociological thought.I can assert that Adorn, in the polemics against the positivism in German sociology, in his analysis about the Auguste Comte's work, in the interpretation of Émile Durkheim's works, through of "immanent criticism", seeks to build a "critical theory", which constitutes itself starting from the criticism to sociological tradition.