Interminados, criadores e sonhadores: o problema da estética em Paulo Freire

Abstract

Despite not having called the attention of the main interpreters of his work, Paulo Freire's problem of aesthetics constitutes an important nucleus of his thought. Among his writings, in his conversations
and pedagogical practices, the theme of aesthetics has always been present, since the beginning of his intellectual and educator career until his last published works. In this article I try to show some of these references and propose an analytical path that goes through the concept of creation in order to understand how the theme of aesthetics is especially related to his conception of education. Faced with the advance of neoliberalism, the concept of dream nds in his work a political articulation that I also associate to the meaning that he attributed to creation as an emancipatory possibility and promoter of other meanings to existence.