Transver the world and love the pure flower in bloom: A conversation with Paulo Freire and Manoel de Barros
Paulo Freire. Manuel de Barros. Contemporary capitalism. Word reading. World reading.
This qualification text brings the initial research considerations woven from the reflections carried out during the Master's studies. By placing Manoel de Barros in dialogue with Paulo Freire, our main objective is to deepen the reading of the educator's work, especially regarding the tensions that exist in many issues of our time and that confront facts of contemporary capitalism. In this sense, Baroque poetry allows us to “transfer” Freire's thought, because it goes beyond the understanding and reading of words to reach a new reading of the world. The chapter “The praise of the useless: against neoliberal fatalism” addresses some Freirean concepts, such as the refusal of neoliberal discourse and ideology, the ontological vocation of humanization, the search for Being Mais, the awareness of incompleteness and the criticism of banking education and finds, in Baroque poetry, from an aesthetic protagonism of rupture that resignifies uselessness, beauty and unimportance, a reading that makes us think about some contemporary problems. In the same way, biographical aspects of Paulo Freire, such as some points of his childhood and specific clippings of his thought, such as the idea of the possible dream, utopia, the unpublished-viable, limit-situations and hope build the second chapter, “Hope is carrying water in a sieve”, in which Freire's thought acquires new meanings in Manoel de Barros's “poetic reverie”. Finally, we bring a brief overview of what we still intend to address throughout the ongoing research.