O objeto das ciências sociais e a virada comunicativa: Adorno após Habermas The object of social sciences and the communicative turn: Adorno after Habermas

O artigo procura reconsiderar as críticas de Jürgen Habermas à teoria social de Theodor Adorno. Inicialmente, analisamos as raz es apresentadas por Habermas para abandonar a crítica dialética do processo de racionaliza o social. Em seguida, para expor nossas obje es a essa interpreta o, reconstruímos duas teses que, embora essenciais à crítica de Adorno ao processo de moderniza o vigente, foram deslocadas pelo paradigma da a o comunicativa. Por fim, através da rela o entre linguagem e racionalidade que Adorno estabelece, sugerimos um tratamento diferente ao lugar da comunica o na constitui o das sociedades contemporaneas. The article intends to reconsider the critique of Theodor Adorno's Social Theory formulated by Jürgen Habermas. In the first part of the text we analyze in detail the reasons Habermas enounces to leave behind the dialectical criticism of the process of social rationalization. In order to put forward our objections to Habermas' interpretation we reconstruct, in the second part, two essential thesis, which became displaced by the paradigm of communicative action, and which had served Adorno to elaborate his criticism of the prevailing modernization process. As a conclusion, we propose a different understanding of the roll played by communication in the constitution of contemporary societies, through an analysis - based upon Adorno - of the relationship between language and rationality.