Emancipação e Modernidade: elementos para uma discussão

Abstract

The present article mentions to a social historical synthesis on the subject Emancipation and Modernity, objectifying the historical circumstances understanding of Modernity that demarcate the demand for emancipation human as a social phenomenon and politician which trod the contradictory ways of the modern society. It was necessary to unmask, based at the Marx's thought, the contradictory meanings of the emancipation - molded by the dominant relations of the bourgeois class that was called revolutionary. We take as reference the study of two great modern historical landmarks: the French Revolution and the Iluminism, therefore had been the mentors ethical-politicians of the proposal emancipatory of Modernity, propagating values, ideas and perspectives to the modern society. In this process, the capitalism associated with the liberal thought, with hegemonic presence in the modern world, revalued the constituent elements of this society, curtailing emancipatory processes to subaltern class.