Abstract

CORBELLINI, Francieli  and  SCHULER, Betina. Literature and teaching: an aesthetic justification of existence. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.25, e020022. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v25.e020022.

In times of acceleration, competition against oneself, and pragmatic and instrumental language to refer to education, which would be the value of aesthetic justification of existence in teaching training? We aim at highlighting the relation between literature and teaching based on the concept of aesthetic of existence. We have chosen to deal with teacher training highlighted by the exercise of thought, by the problematization of values, and by the care of the self and others as a mode of resistance. We adopted an arch genealogical inspiration based on Foucault in order to read authors that work with literature and teaching beyond the pragmatic perspective. Based on such perspective, this article takes literature from Foucauldian studies to problematize teaching constitution. More specifically, we searched the genealogy of subjectivation studies for writing and reading as possible practices of the care of the self-regarding Foucault’s investigation on Greek-Roman Antiquity, especially during the first centuries of our era. However, rather than using an anachronic conceptual application, we took these tools to think about what we have become in the present, what the contemporary modes of domination are, and what possibilities to create the stylistics of existence we have. As a theoretical essay, this article operates with literature as a fold in language taken as truth, as a bent force over itself, which could work not out of language, but out of the order of discourse. Under this perspective, lite rature would not have the function to reveal the truth, to be a pastime, to inform or to deliver knowledge; but it could function as a practice of the self in an exercise of thought to problematize what we are doing with our lives and the others in the present.

Keywords : Literature; Teaching; Practices of the self; Foucault.

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