Abstract

SILVA, Carla Patrícia. Starting from childhood or the arché of thought. child.philo [online]. 2019, vol.15, e36721.  Epub Jan 02, 2019. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2019.36721.

From the birthplace of childhood, this text seeks, through Giorgio Agamben (2005), Heraclitus (fragment B52) and Paulo Freire (1982, 1986, 2001, 2015), to elucidate the coexistence between childhood and time. These authors contribute to the idea that childhood, be it chronological or not, is an inspiration without which it is impossible for us to be inventive in relation to history, philosophy and education. In this way, it works with the hypothesis that childhood and time are conceptually indefinable and dilutive of the idea of stability, which escapes the understanding of continuity, since it is not an absolute event. In this sense, the present text starts from the reading that childhood is fundamentally a condition of existence of human history, which makes it possible to move the language to thought and, thereby, causes inventiveness for the whole state of affairs. To think about the childhood that is at issue in this text, we consider a certain experience of time different from the traditional experience, the result of an understanding conceived as chronology and finishing, present in the various readings made from childhood. As we put these notes, some questions are asked: is there something like a childhood of thought? Is insistence on childhood a way of not giving up a new concept of childhood experience over time?

Keywords : childhood; time; story; start..

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