http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/19691 2026-07-15T14:56:42Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/87091 Título: Educação para a democracia: Adorno e a reflexão crítica contra o autoritarismo Autor(es): Abreu, Wesley Carlos de Abstract: This research investigates the relationship between education and democracy based on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno, seeking to understand how critical reflection can act as a form of resistance to authoritarianism. It starts from the observation that, throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, democratic societies have been and continue to be threatened by authoritarian tendencies, often naturalized in everyday life. In this context, education must be understood not merely as the transmission of content, but as a formative practice capable of strengthening autonomous, critical subjects who are resistant to ideologies that foster intolerance, submission, and authoritarian propaganda. The guiding question of this study is: in what way does Adorno’s philosophy contribute to grounding an education that serves as a barrier against the authoritarian personality and the new configurations of contemporary authoritarianism? The hypothesis argues that critical education, by prioritizing emancipation and reflective capacity—articulated with an affective pedagogy—constitutes a decisive instrument for the preservation and deepening of democracy. The objective is to analyze the Adornian conception of education for democracy in dialogue with the critique of authoritarianism, highlighting the relevance of The Authoritarian Personality in examining the formation of subjects predisposed to authoritarian character; in connection with Education and Emancipation, which advocates education oriented toward autonomy; and The New Right-Wing Radicalism, which demonstrates the persistence and updating of authoritarianism in democratic societies. The methodological approach consisted of a systematic reading and critical interpretation of Adorno’s works, articulating theory and the historical context of the rise of authoritarian movements, establishing parallels with contemporary reality, and evidencing the continued relevance of critical pedagogy. Taken together, Adorno’s writings provide solid foundations for an educational proposal which, by forming reflective subjects, contributes to democratic resistance in the face of authoritarian threats, confronting oppressive ideologies and sustaining democracy as an ongoing process of construction. Tipo: Tese 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86347 Título: Do conceito de história à totalidade provisória em O Capital de Marx: limites e possibilidades do método Autor(es): Almeida, Rodrigo Cavalcante de Abstract: The present research takes as scope to analyze two fundamental concepts of Marx's method in the work The Capital. They are the concepts of History and Provisional Totality; defending the thesis that the development of the first concept or conception of History is configured, in part, in the second concept of Provisional Totality, which we consider to be a fundamental analytical key for understanding the work Capital and, therefore, its method. To this end, the paper is divided into two parts: the first part deals with the formation of the concept of History in Marx, demonstrating the processual and non-linear character of this concept in the work of the German thinker, from the works of youth, where we argue that there is not yet a concept of history in the author, but notions of history , based on a realistic posture and a keen notion of historicity, passing through the German Ideology, a turning point in Marx's work, and which marks the beginning of his conception of history, but not its completion, until the development of the critique of the lack of historicity of political economy. In the second part, which focuses on Capital, we will investigate the concept of Provisional Totality, implicit in the work. In fact, it is the very method of The Capital, which is nothing more than Marx's attempt, perhaps partly unconscious, to combine a dialectical presentation of the categories of the capitalist mode of production with a synthesis of the concrete historical process. In other words, a synthesis between a materialist dialectic and an open-ended conception of history, articulated in a totality that will therefore be provisional. It derives from this both the concept of law and the categories of social averages, making it possible to understand the various levels of abstraction between the three books, while expressing the limits and scope of Marx's method. Tipo: Tese 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86146 Título: Consciências coletivas: uma abordagem gradualista do monismo protopsíquico Autor(es): Fonseca, Anderson Luiz do Vale Abstract: The hypothesis that Collective Consciousnesses exist in the natural world challenges the assumption that consciousness is phenomenally determinate, since such forms would be in a gray area of phenomenal unification. This point of view, once its reasonableness is accepted, is in accordance with psychophysical gradualism, according to which consciousness is a vague property of biological organization. On this basis, we propose that Panprotopsychist Dual- Aspect Monism admits that subjective experience comes in degrees, correlated with the arrangement of the physical parts of a living system. Accordingly, there would be non- conscious, borderline, and conscious forms. The colony, in this case, is examined as a spatially distributed organism that exhibits a partially integrated experience. To support this argument, we investigate the Phenomenal Binding Problem to determine which physical process makes it possible for consciousnesses to be combined into an integrated whole. In addressing this issue, we argue that the synchronization of electromagnetic fields constitutes the physical substrate that enables the combination of the experiences of the colony’s components. The analysis of biological models, such as bryozoans and siphonophores, leads to the recognition of an evident relationship between the synchronization of (neuro)electrical oscillations and collective sensitivity. We conclude that distributed consciousness is not merely an analogical description, but a natural occurrence. Tipo: Tese 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85295 Título: O pressuposto estético-linguístico do conhecimento: a crítica epistemológica de Walter Benjamin no Caderno N das passagens Autor(es): Silva, Paulo Victor de Albuquerque Abstract: This thesis investigates Walter Benjamin's critique of knowledge, focusing on the “N Convolute – Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress” from “Das Passagen-Werk”. It proceeds from the hypothesis that the Benjaminian epistemology is grounded in a dual and inseparable aesthetic-linguistic premise, according to which historical knowledge emerges from the correlation between sensory apprehension (aesthetics) and interpretative understanding (language). The investigation is developed along three main axes: 1) the expansion of the concept of aesthetics beyond the philosophy of art, situating it as a cognitive dimension of sensory experience in the modern metropolis; 2) the formulation of a Benjaminian philosophy of language that articulates semantics, pragmatics, and materialist hermeneutics; and 3) the immanent analysis of “Convolute N” where this dual foundation is consolidated as the basis of the historical materialist method. In its conclusion, the study critically situates Benjamin’s contribution within the 20th-century epistemological landscape, establishing a brief critical dialogue with three paradigms – the paradigm of consciousness, logical positivism, and orthodox materialism – re-evaluated through the aesthetic-linguistic prism, culminating in the formulation of the “philological historical materialism” as a theoretical synthesis that integrates historicity, language, and sensibility. It concludes that the epistemological turn operated by Benjamin – by decentralizing the transcendental subject and rooting knowledge in sensible-linguistic material objectivity – offers an original paradigm for understanding both the 19th-century modernity and the cognitive impasses of the contemporary world. Tipo: Tese 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z