Luis Garcia

El propósito del presente artículo es determinar las características del concepto de racionalidad subyacente a la Industria Cultural propia de la época y que podemos adivinar que aun sigue presente en el contexto de crisis económica y moral que nos sacude actualmente. Concretamente, la intención expresa en este artículo reside en ver dar cuenta de la pertinencia de la crítica a la racionalidad absoluta e instrumental por parte de Adorno y Horkheimer, así como de describir la esterilidad de sus propuestas alternativas. No obstante, reseñaremos la apelación a la trascendencia, propia de la fase tardía de estos autores, como algo que puede abrir una vía de superación tanto para el capitalismo como al materialismo hedonista.

Among the manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses used by N. Heinsius and as yet unidentified or given up for lost is the so-called fragmentum Caesenas, the collation of which was not carried out by Heinsius himself but provided for him by the Hamburg jurist Lucas Langermann, who was a correspondent of Heinsius, Gronovius and Vossius, among others. According to M.D. Reeve, he was also responsible for adding these notes, using the siglum c, to Oxon. Bodl. Auct. S.V.5, which also includes the collations—by another hand—of A and B. The variants provided by this fragment affect lines 9.235–11.169 and 13.1–403, although this does not imply that these were the exact limits of its content, as we shall see below. Some of these variants ended up in the notes of the editions by Heinsius himself and by those who continued his work, and it was D.A. Slater who rescued the collation of Bodl. Auct. S.V.5 from obscurity when he included the greater part of the readings of c among the rich store of information presented in his work. F. Munari included the fragment in his catalogue, clearly pointing to the uncertainty surrounding its dating while adding the information that it was not at that time to be found in Cesena. The succinct information offered by Slater is used by I. Marahrens for her dissertation and by W.S. Anderson for his edition. R.J. Tarrant, in turn, explicitly states that the fragment is now lost. In the following pages, however, I will attempt to show that this fragment is not lost, but still preserved in the Biblioteca Malatestiana in Cesena.