Pensamiento crítico y mundo de la vida en la Filosofía Latinoamericana: En recuerdo del filósofo vasco, José María Mardones

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.