Abstract

FARINON, Mauricio João  and  LUCA, Deise Cristiane de. A esthetic of existence as educational fact. Educação. Porto Alegre [online]. 2023, vol.46, n.1, e44731. ISSN 1981-2582.  https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2023.1.44731.

This essay proposes to mean the aesthetics of existence as an educational fact. The Foucauldian notion of aesthetics of existence finds the Gadamerian notion of fact, leading to the proposition of inquiring, educational assumption, and expectation contexts, in a different way to the notion of ideal models converted into standardized forms of existence. We advocate education on the basis of the aesthetics of existence, a condition for the construction of a beautiful project of the self, constituting life as a work of art in the perspective of the common and of the preservation of the human condition. From a philosophical perspective, the aesthetics of existence is discussed as a response to power relations in the sphere of governmentality, but also as a condition of power relations under the criterion of freedom.

Keywords : education; aesthetics of existence; power; freedom.

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