Democratic global ethical life and overcoming alienation. The Frankfurt school and critical reformulation of emancipatory potential

Abstract

This paper reconstructs the problematization Wellmer makes Adornian approach to the collapse of metaphysics and its articulation with an alternative eventual aesthetic to immediately explore the comprehensive proposal for the third Frankfurt School around democratic, sustainable ethics from the approaches of Dubiel, Honneth and Wellmer as an alternative for overcoming the aporias Adorno and the first Frankfurt School cannot overcome, a category that takes us in Habermas to his notion of constitutional patriotism which acquires its postconventional political projection democratic ethics and concurring in the figure of a rebellious public opinion that both Habermas and Nancy Fraser wanted to base, as an option against hegemonic and potentially emancipatory in societies in conflict, to finally articulate this with the cosmopolitan spirit of republicanism emphasizes, from Nussbaum , Bohman and again Fraser, transnational perspective emancipatory aspirations may have in a global world, whose synergies converge and materialize strategies not only national and international democratic coexistence but also, through them, the concrete improvement-not merely ethics or aesthetics of phenomena of political authoritarianism and social alienation, meanwhile, albeit partial, family mediation reconciliation in complex societies.