Towards a reflction on the environmental crisis. Max Horkheimer and Günther Anders: dominance desire and Promethean Discrepancy

Abstract

The environmental crisis that we suffer increases as far as the human being has expanded the limits of what he considers, is under his scrutiny and domination. Under bothethe idea of progress and of scientific work within it, nature has been "disenchanted" to become the object of study, analysis, experimentation and alteration, no longer withethe objective, of searching for a truthein itself but to control it, manipulate it and transform it. The objective of the text is to address the points of convergence between, on one hand, the criticism made by Max Horkheimer on the unfulfilled promises of the enlightened project and the dominion exercised by instrumental reason over physical and human nature and, on the other, the criticisms and warnings made by Günther Anders concerning the consequences generated by the "Promethean shame" and the "promethean phase" on the "blindness before the Apocalypse".