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| Author(s): |
Eduardo Oliveira Sanches
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Presidente Prudente. 2017-05-03. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente |
| Defense date: | 2017-03-16 |
| Advisor: | Divino José da Silva |
| Abstract | |
This theoretical study seeks, in Philosophy and Philosophy of Education, subsidies to investigate the relationship between childhood and experience in the Work of Walter Benjamin, from the perspective of what Bolle (1984) called child culture in the context of modernity. In order to direct our research, we appealed to the analysis of the Bejaminian trials in which, in a privileged way, the theme of childhood appears: "Reflections on the child, the toy, the education" (2002), "Berlin childhood: 1900" (2013) and "The children's hour: Walter Benjamin's radio narratives "(2015). The culture of the child is constituted and presented in Benjamin's trials through paths in which memory and history intersect. We find the notion of the child's culture in journeys where the author recomposes the memory of his own childhood, lived on the threshold between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Berlin, as well as in other paths dedicated by the author to think about the child, to highlight and reflect aspects, such as its sensitivity or its condition in modernity. The culture of the child, therefore, appears diluted in the historical elements that register a temporality in transformation and rearrangement of social roles in modern society in which the idea of childhood itself is redefined. In the field of child culture, playful expression is a mark of ambivalence between imitation and transformation. This exercise, in its authenticity, not appropriated ideologically, causes tension to the perception, placing it between the obvious and the unusual, since it disarticulate a given established ordination of meanings. In this idea of play it is implied a new quality of bond with the present time; it involves a new esthetic, a new way of perceiving and signifying situations, as profanatory attitude. Such a notion approximates the allegorical image of the child of important characters to the author in his reflections, such as the flâneur and the collector. Thinking about childhood in this context makes it possible to think of it in a timeless way, as a childhood of mankind and, in this way, as a human condition for profanation. While being endowed with language, man's perspective of childhood predicts a state of dumbness or stutter in the face of Benjamin's time of present. Experience and childhood also lead us to what we call the infancy of the child, to differentiate what is intended for an allegorical conception of children and childhood in our study. For this idea, there is a child whose protagonism is a very relevant factor for emancipation. For the child, Benjamin devotes a subtle form of profane pedagogy to radio waves. We find in the radio plays the consubstantiation of a thought about childhood in a praxis developed as an attempt to promote the resistance and emancipation of the child in a historical moment in which the Hitlerite Youth pressed childhood and youth toward their social project of domination. In this sense, thinking about a man´s childhood and one of a child´s childhood, can also be understood, as an attempt to recover or build in a new way the relationships between children and adults, teachers and students, in our actual time, in the twenty-first century - Jetztzeit: To profane and to resist! (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/21152-3 - CHILD CULTURE AND MODERNITY: EXPERIENCE AND CHILDHOOD IN WALTER BENJAMIN. |
| Grantee: | Eduardo Oliveira Sanches |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |