This is a position paper; written to provoke the debate and the contradictory. The argument developed considers different conceptions of emancipation, as well as their consequence for the production of critics. It introduces the critical management studies, under the perspective developed by Alvesson and Willmott. Following it is discussed the issue of emancipation, having as a reference the formulations of the Frankfurt School, in its different phases. It is considered, then, an article by Alvesson e Willmott dedicated to the issue of emancipation and its translation into microemancipation, domesticating the critics in organizational studies. In opposition, it is adopted a definition of emancipation considering the production of two Latin American authors, Enrique Dussel and Paulo Freire. It is also paid a tribute to the Brazilian critical production. The article ends up with a brief consideration on the inscription of the critics as an opposition to the production of functional science.
critics; microemancipation; emancipation; life materiality; organizational studies