Effects of meaning in contemporary educational discourses: the fallacious figure of liberty as promise of redemption

• Autor(a) principal: Henning, Paula Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Ratto, Cleber Gibbon
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação e Pesquisa
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/ep/article/view/28249
• topic: Educação; Episteme moderna; Liberdade; Education; Modern episteme; Liberty

This text takes Liberty, one of the flags of the French Revolution, as an emblematic figure of modern episteme, which gives support to the production of a particular moral subject. For that, it examines parts of doctoral theses presented in 2006 to the Graduate Program in Education Studies of the University of Vale dos Sinos (Unisinos). With Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault, it problematizes the concept of liberty, establishing war as the condition of possibility for the constitution of practices of freedom. It is concerned with showing some of the potential effects of these discourses upon education, and to such purpose takes the Nietzschean critique of freedom in its twofold character: the freedom to think, and the freedom to wish, both inscribed into the fundamental prejudice of the unity of consciousness. It makes use of Foucault's critique to the Enlightenment with its deep influence on modern ideals, and also firmly present in education. With his notion of practices of freedom, the article problematizes this modern emblem as a thinking resource that, far from functioning as a redemption of thought or will, is a possibility for the construction of our lives as an aesthetic work. With that, it seeks to reveal aspects of the modern episteme that, to this day, serve as the ground for the composition of the moral operated by education.