By Bernard E. Harcourt Reading Reading Capital: surely, the linguistic reprise does not escape you. Our project, very much like the project of Louis Althusser and his students, is to return to a formative critical text in order to deploy… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Two aspects of Paulo Freire’s work remain essential today: first, the central idea of treating the other as subject rather than object: treating the other as a knowledgeable equal, with the dignity that accompanies the belief that… Continue Reading
Primary Reading Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité 4. Les Aveux de la chair (Paris: Gallimard, 2018) Bernard E. Harcourt, “Foucault’s Keystone: Confessions of the Flesh. How the Fourth and Final Volume of The History of Sexuality Completes Foucault’s Critique of… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In the end, there is a fundamental clash between these two early texts by Horkheimer and Adorno, which reveals dramatically different sensibilities. Horkheimer’s text aims for a perfectly rational society, organized reasonably around economic production. The… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The first seminar, Critique 1/13, was dedicated to “The Search for a Method”: to the question of what it really means to “return” to these critical texts today, to “read” them or ‘reread” them, and to… Continue Reading
Por Alessandra Vannucci A fama do Boal consagrou-se internacionalmente na década de 70, com o livro Teatro do Oprimido e outras estéticas políticas, traduzido em várias línguas, escrito quando o diretor trilhava caminhos experimentais na prática de um teatro que… Continue Reading
By Alessandra Vannucci, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Boal’s fame was internationally established in the 1970s, with the book Teatro do Oprimido e outras estéticas políticas (Theater of the Oppressed and Other Political Aesthetics). This was translated into various languages… Continue Reading
By Antonio Pele, PUC-Rio University Reframing the Pedagogy of the Oppressed (PO) of Paulo Freire within a critical theory perspective is both challenging and productive. It is challenging inasmuch it puts into question a potential static and merely theoretical/historical interpretation of Freire ideas… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt At a time when Paulo Freire’s ideas and pedagogy are under attack, especially in his native country of Brazil, it is particularly important to return to his writings, not only to discover new critical moves to… Continue Reading
Por Bernard E. Harcourt, trad. Maira Souza Moreira Em um momento em que as ideias e a pedagogia de Paulo Freire estão sob ataque, especialmente no Brasil, seu país natal, é particularmente importante retornar aos seus escritos, não apenas para descobrir… Continue Reading