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| Author(s): |
Frederico Tell de Lima Ventura
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2009-03-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Irene de Arruda Ribeiro Cardoso;
Wolfgang Leo Maar;
Franklin Leopoldo e Silva
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| Advisor: | Irene de Arruda Ribeiro Cardoso |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation traverses on the concept of education in Theodor W. Adorno\'s piece, having as its main analysis base two essay from the author on the theme, The meaning of working through the past and Education after Auschwitz. Our main argument is that Adorno conceives the contemporary education as a privileged moment of Aufklärung as means to politically intervene in the individual and society relation; or rather in the shape that this relation is found historically and socially configured under the late capitalism. So that such an intervention is possible, Adorno assures that education must be taken into account, as its starting point, the historical diagnosis that the progress of Enlightenment has been reversed on its contrary, on the barbarism that erupted in the heart of culture during the middle of the 20th Century, and has in the Auschwitz event its historical sign. Based on this diagnosis the author tries to argument that the main objective of the present education consists in avoiding the repetition of this event. Adorno\'s key argument, according to our interpretation, is that having this negative objective in mind, education must make an inflexion towards the subject that focuses on clarifying to the very subjects the objective and subjective conditions that allowed the regression to the barbarity that took place in Auschwitz. That being so, education is thought as a subjective enlightenment process, through public intervention in the reified present, whereas a strengthened form of the individual\'s resistance capacity against the pressure of a social totality that impels to adapting to the existent. (AU) | |