Abstract

ORTEGA REYNA, Jaime. Two Latin American Approaches to the Authoritarian State: Bolívar Echeverría and Rubén Jaramillo Vélez. Rev. filos. Univ. Iberoam. [online]. 2024, vol.56, n.156, pp.130-155.  Epub May 17, 2024. ISSN 2954-4602.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rdf.v56i156.219.

This text analyzes the reception of Max Horkheimer’s text Authoritarian State by two important Latin American philosophers: the Ecuadorian-Mexican Bolívar Echeverría and the Colombian Rubén Jaramillo Vélez. Located in different contexts (Mexico and Colombia) although in a similar temporality ‒the 1980s‒ both authors proceeded to translate and promote the publication of the text, while at the same time venturing antipodean interpretations of each other. A brief overview is given of the way in which this work has been treated in the great collective biographies on the “Critical Theory of Society” and then the approaches of both philosophers are compared. The intention is to give an account of a moment of reception of this work as part of the construction of a geography of critical theory from the Americas.

Keywords : critical theory; reception; translation; authoritarianism; critique of the political economy.

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