The history desertion : the postmodernism and neoliberalism and ideological sources of global capitalism / A deserção da historia : o pós-modernismo e neoliberalismo como armas ideologicas do capitalismo global : um mal estar mais que um ruptura
AUTOR(ES)
Gilberto Andrade de Abreu
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
It is about a philosophical study developed at the Study Group in Philosophy and Education PAIDEIA, in the Research Line "Politics, Ethics and Education" on the thematic of the historic loss of value in the self-proclaimed "post-modern" theories. The loss of meaning and historical references sounds like a disdain to the past. The intellectual fragility of this interpretation comes crowned with a notion of impotence of the emancipatory action, remaining only the internal resistances, being either the work of the artist, the naive indefinition and the silence of the soul. Post-modernism, as general form of thought, beyond anti totalizing and anti generalizing, it rejects all type of great narrative, intensifying the Marxism critic to the capitalism, opting for fragmentary and uncentred points of view. It considers concepts as class, capitalism and even society as "sociological abstractions". All form of projection to the future is innocuous, in a way that we are in a continuous present, unprovided of any mission, a time that the progress and reason concepts are discredited and can provoke trends of totalizing intentions. History, at last, is no more than dystopia and chaos. There are at least two matrices of the concept of Post-Modernity: the neoliberalism estimates the mass culture, the commercialism, the unstoppable consumerism and it is syntonized with the delayed capitalism, and the trend that intends rebel against the chains of the dominant culture. It is what endorses on vindictive movements the ethnicity, sex and locality. It considers a new cosmopolitism and global conscience, insurging itself against the ethnocentrism that privileges only one side of the history or an only geographic segment of the globe; also moves itself against the diverse fundamentalisms and dogmatisms. If, on the other hand, post-modernism reacts against the universalism of the Illuminism, for another one promotes the cosmopolitism illuminist. It is not mere coincidence to have occurred at the beginning of the structural crisis of the capitalism, in the 70 , at the exact instant that the system reached the maximum planetary performance. Therefore, we understand the Neoliberalism, at the Economy and the Post- Modernism, in the Culture, as a "shunting line", conscientiously planned and executed. To the end of our inquiry, theoretical and practical elements of extreme ethical necessity and politics appear, with enormous consequences on the practical educational, considered the challenge to reconstruct the front of reason in the historical and educational research. The historian is at the same time in two instances: of exteriority to its object, the temporality distance that keeps it away, and of interiority originated of its knowledge. The long historiographyc tradition always implied, since Thucydides and Herodotus, in an ethical position, of "a contract besides truth" that has been the fundament of the historical method.
ASSUNTO(S)
história pos-modernismo neoliberalismo filosofia neoliberalismo philosophy history postmodernism education educação
