Abstract

FERREIRA, João Vicente Hadich  and  CAVALEIRO, Maria Cristina. Freire’s present thought in times of authorianism: resuming his First Words. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.27, e022044.  Epub Apr 20, 2024. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v27.e022044.

The present essay resumes the introductory text of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed entitled First Words. A brief text, presenting its classic book written from the exile, in seven pages, shortly after the rich preface by professor Ernani Maria Fiori, for which Freire spared no praise. The inspiring context of this essay is the current political moment experienced in Brazil, in which Freire is strongly attacked by subjects of civil society along with subjects of political categories, in the campaign for a "school without a party" that fights "against the abuse of freedom to teach". Paulo Freire continues to bother more about his thoughts, that some intend to disqualify, than necessarily by the comprehension of his literature. Therefore, resuming Primeiras Palavras intends to explore some of the main concepts worked by him, to dialogue with any reader, regardless of the space-time in which he is, despite the inevitable dating of his work in that moment. Radicality and revolution, opposed to sectarianism and reactionism, are concepts worked in an enlightening way to understand contemporary elements of barbarism that continues to hover on the horizon, even after decades of the end of the dictatorship in Brazil and Nazism in Germany. Authoritarianism, dogmatism and the increase of conservatism in the current policy show that, more than ever, it is beneficial to resume the critical and divergent thinking to emancipate and free us from what tries to prevail, always in the light of these currents: the usurpation of the protagonism of the existing in the construction of human history.

Keywords : Emancipation; Freedom; Radical.

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