Abstract:
The aim of this essay is to elucidate the ontogenesis of instrumentality and its relationship with modern reason and fetishism. Appeal to historical-dialectical materialism, based on the ontology of social being, is used to categorically unveil instrumentality. It then looks at the influence of formal-abstract and fetishistic rationality on this category. It is found that the de-fetishization carried out by dialectical reason is the only one capable of counteracting the fetishism of formal-abstract reason.
Keywords:
Instrumentality; Reason; Fetishism; Method; Ontology