Emancipação humana e educação em Marx: para uma crítica da formação burguesa no horizonte da desigualdade social

Abstract

The current thesis deals with the relations between the human emancipation and education, from Marx’s original manuscripts. The use of categories which draw their origin from Marx in an empty and innacurate way has given place to speculations about education as instance which enables the individual to ascend socially from their skilled inclusion in the capitalist labor market. Therefore, the educational reforms are proposed with the objective of better adequating the education to the social economic development. The study deepening concerning Marx’s thought categories compose the basis for the comprehension of the human emancipation as a deep transformation of society and the education role in this process. The essential issue determined in the research in relation to the educational reforms is that they completely ignore the double nature of education (affirmation and denial of the human) in the capitalist society. This double nature cannot be ignored in an educational perspective which presupposes the marxisist thought. For this reason, in this work, Marx fundamental categories, as the work in its double nature (ontological and questioned) in the capitalist society, the politics, the emancipation, the questioning, have been taken over, as well as the study of the marxisist method as an instrument which is not limited to the comprehension of the political economy, but as a method of apprehension of what is real and, therefore, formative both in its investigation moment and its exhibition moment. The objective is to base and delimit the possibilities and problems for an educational conception based on the dialectical and historical materialism in face of the contradiction between the partiality of the political emancipation and the universality of the human emancipation which is expressed in the capitalist society and which disfigures the education as a driving force of the human being. Such objective can only be achieved through the recovery, throughout this thesis, from the fundamental categories in Marx. The current education framework, which exposes it as a justifying and naturalizing of the current contractual form demands the basis study of the emancipation in Marx, as well as through manuscripts of this German philosopher about education. The final considerations indicate that a marxisist conception for the education cannot prescind from its double nature, and it also demands a substantial subjectivity and the man’s knowledge which is intended as project of an education which effectively contributes to a profound transformation of society.