Crisis, end, or eclipse of reason? Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory contributions to an epistemology of eugenics

This article investigates the epistemological foundations of Francis Galton's eugenics based on Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory. Grounded a bibliographical research, we analyze texts in which English polymath structured rationality his science-religion, contrasting them with theoretical-critical diagnosis crisis reason. We conclude that Horkheimer’s argument denouncing enlightened roots eugenics, despite not having been explored historiography, remains fundamental to understanding eugenic scientific rationality, denominated