Pensamento pós-moderno e educação na crise estrutural do capital

Abstract

This thesis analyzes post – modern thinking and education in Lyotard and Vattimo under the context of the structural crisis of contemporary capital. It aims at working out in detail a critical view on post – modern thinking and its central category of difference, featuring it as ideological expressions of the material output of such crisis, proving, critically its reflections and its ideological impact on education, based on the marxist theoretical framework: Mandel, enphasising the late capitalism concept and the third revolution; Meszáros, setting priority on the structural crisis of capital and its uncontrolability, activation of absolute limits and decreasing rate of utilization of goods; Jameson and Harvey, focusing on their criticism on post – modern thinking as ideological expression of late capitalism. The critical study as shown here examines if post – modern thinking and its view on education expresses the logic of capital: in Lyotard, it has been examined the role of university; in Vattimo, reflection has been about liberation of differences through media and the new hermeneutic ideal for education. The outcome of this study proves that post – modern thinking and its influence on education express the movements and concerns of contemporary capital in its structural crisis. Determination of late capitalism on education has been studied through influence of the third technological revolution on superior teaching based on Mandel’s thinking. The influence of the structural crisis on education has been examined based on Meszáro’s reflections. However, this study has proved, in addition, that post modern thinking, in spite of its epistemological and educational limits, also has contributed to improvements and possibilities of emancipation.