Autonomia e esclarecimento: o projeto crítico enquanto projeto político

Using the concepts of enlightenment and autonomy, the aim of this article is to build a question in the kantian philosophy about the necessity to comprehend the critical project also as a political project. However, to do so it is required to confront the contemporary tradition that begins with Hegel and persist until Habermas, in which the idea of Critique is regarded as an empty and passive element (since grounded in the abstraction of the moral law). The article will point out an interpretation in which the practical faculty of judgment, in its reflexive and determining activity, would unify the political and juridical elements that find its counterpart in the so called “critical epoch”.