Abstract

KOHAN, Walter Omar. Life and death of childhood, between the human and the inhuman. Educ. Real. [online]. 2010, vol.35, n.03, pp.125-138. ISSN 0100-3143.

This text starts from French Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, who defines childhood as the rest of inhuman that every human being needs to abandon in order to be born in the world. It shares with this author the political task of resistance to all forgetting of this childhood. The text incorporates other authors: Socrates, who sets childhood in the realm of a truth which is just and at the same time impossible to hear; Rilke, who identifies childhood to children and art; G. Deleuze, who separates childhood from the subjectivity that inscribes childhood in the path of the forgetting of itself. Finally, brings Lyotard critique to Contemporary Totalitarism that focuses itself in childhood. The four readings have a political link: they are modes of resistance to the forgetting of childhood that constitutes every human being.

Keywords : Childhood; J.-F. Lyotard; Socrates; Rilke; Deleuze.

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