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This article aims to challenge the conceptual indeterminacy of the term “Lebensform” (form of life) in the German philosophical tradition, seeking to show what ones find in the first Critical Theory, a materialist reading of “form of life.” It is proposed to reconstruct it, reflecting the dynamic concept of culture developed by Horkheimer during the 1930s, in a close dialogue, whatever implied, with the Marxian materialism of German Ideology.