Mais que um segundo violino: as contribuições de Engels para o tema da formação humana

Abstract

The research is titled "More Than a Second Violin: Engels' Contributions to the Theme of Human Formation." It is characterized as a bibliographical study, guided by dialectical materialism, as developed by Engels and Marx. This understanding of material reality is a totality composed of objects that precede human existence (given reality), but also contain objects that arise as a result of concrete, transformative, and material human activity (posited reality). This aids the research, since human formation can be studied as an internal and external process from a historical-social perspective. It adopts the understanding of the category of human formation as a process pertaining to the constitution of human sociability, therefore, beyond the formal processes of institutionalized spaces. Its general objective is precisely to analyze Friedrich Engels' contributions to the theme of human formation. In addition, it also intends to analyze Engels' conception of human formation; investigate Engels' formation and his transformation into a revolutionary thinker and activist; and analyze Engels' personal theoretical and practical contributions to the formation of what is defined as Marxism. Based on the study of Engels' work, we aim to contribute to the development of Marxist pedagogy. In this sense, we were able to approach our research from the perspective of praxis, that is, any and all materially transformative human activity, while also taking into account that human existence is recorded in history as subsequent to the existence of the natural environment (inorganic and organic), in order to better understand the process of human formation from Engels' perspective.