Abstract

(UFFS), Bruno Antonio Picoli; (IFPR), Samuel Mânica Radaelli  and  (UNOCHAPECO), Anderson Luiz Tedesco. ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM, NEOCONSERVATISM AND REACTIONARYISM IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL: THE UNPOLITICAL SCHOOL MOVEMENT AND THE PERSECUTION AGAINST TEACHERS. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2020, vol.29, n.58, pp.48-66.  Epub Dec 15, 2020. ISSN 2358-0194.  https://doi.org/10.21879/faeeba2358-0194.2020.v29.n58.p48-66.

This paper discusses, in its problematic, the possibility of establishing a relationship between the reactionary anti-intellectualism that condemned Socrates to ingesting hemlock in Greece and the current persecution against teachers undertaken by movements such as Unpolitical School Movement (USM). For that, a qualitative research was carried out, involving bibliographic studies. The analysis shows that the Unpolitical School Movement is rooted in fundamentalist religious values, supported and strengthened by parties, institutions and religious leaders aligned with neoconservatism. It follows that the anti-intellectualism denounced by Socrates has always been present or dormant in the Western tradition. Precisely in the Brazilian case, the Unpolitical School Movement took on the characteristics of a radicalization of the antiintellectual tendency that projects itself on culture and education and directs its most perverse reactionaries to teachers.

Keywords : Anti-intellectualism; Education; Unpolitical School Movement; Neoconservatism; Reactionary.

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