2017-12-132017-12-132014-12ZANOLLA, Silvia Rosa da Silva. Teoria crítica e pós-modernidade: obstaculização histórica e assujeitamento adialético. Impulso, Piracicaba, v. 24, n. 61, p. 155-166, set.-dez. 2014.e- 2236-9767http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/13171The postmodern culture reaches the world stage around the 1940s, triggering a complex and controversial mo- vement, especially in the world of culture and knowledge pro- duction. However, its dimension reaches the society as a whole, shifting the problem to the field of politics, basically coinciding, in temporal terms, with the emergence of neoliberal ideology. This historical fact justifies its examination having as a basic input the Frankfurt School’s critical theory, especially that of Herbert Marcuse. The statutes governing the postmodern theory are cri- tical elements of analysis in this paper, which elects as medullary concepts the anti-historicism, the pseudo-criticism, and the crisis of reason.porAcesso AbertoPós-modernidadeTeoria crítica marcuseanaIrracionalismoCrise do iluminismoPost-modernityMarcusean critical theoryIrrationalismCrisis of illuminismArtigo10.15600/2236-9767/impulso.v24n61p155-166