%0 Journal Article %T Pensamiento cr¨ªtico y mundo de la vida en la Filosof¨ªa Latinoamericana: En recuerdo del fil¨®sofo vasco, Jos¨¦ Mar¨ªa Mardones %A Salas Astra¨ªn %A Ricardo %J Estudios de filosof£¿-a pr£¿£¿ctica e historia de las ideas %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the purpose of this work is to outline a link between the "critics" and "life's world" categories coming from diverse theoretical traditions in order to prove that this crossing establishes a double question: an intellectual one-where the issues of critical thinking and of the life's world appear in the contemporary philosophic discussion-and another one relative to the social-political experience where the academic practices occur. the link between both categories reveals a specific kind of relation between knowledge and power. we pose that this link is politically and axiologically functional. following this line, we give a context to critical thinking within the conflictive latin american life's worlds, which are historical worlds, full of social, political and economic tension. %K critical thinking %K life's world %K latin american %K philosophy. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-94902007000100012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en