Abstract

BERGAMO, Thelma Maria de Moura  and  TERNES, José. Foucault and modernity: requirements for education. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2015, vol.40, n.1, pp.53-65. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.0104/interacao.2015.401.04.

This paper, based on the thinking of the philosopher Michel Foucault, sets out to investigate the requirements that must be assumed by education if it is to promote an attitude of Modernity. Taking the Classical Age as the period in which knowledge is constituted as pure representation, Modern knowledge, on the contrary, is characterized by the disappearance of the universal subject as its foundation and the recognition of the provisional nature of truth. An education committed to the production of new knowledge and forms of subjectivity implies the promotion of experiences capable of producing a critical attitude, understood as the ability to interrogate the relationship between power, truth and their effects on the subject.

Keywords : Modernity; Knowledge-Power; Subject; Education.

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