Updates of critical theory in training processes: challenges for thinking about education for peace after Auschwitz

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the scope of the culture of war in the dimensions of the world of life and in the formative processes. Starting from a hermeneutic approach, at first, the study identifies through the horizon of Critical Theory the presence of the same rationality that guides the Enlightenment project and war and that converts into irrationality. We do this with reference to Adorno's text About Subject and Object. In a second moment, it recovers the central ideas of Adorno's text Education after Auschwitz which reveals the rationality of war, evaluates this state of civilizational regression, so that later, we can think about an Education in the service of life, an education for love. One of the conclusions of the study is that it is a very fruitful and current reading in the face of the permanent challenges of reinforcing and continuing the culture of war. Furthermore, it contributes to timely reflections on the meaning of education.