The contributions of Georg Lukács to Paulo Freires’s pedagogical political thinking

Abstract

The present work addresses the possible articulations to establish between the theoretical developments of Georg Lukács and the pedagogical political thought of Paulo Freire, focusing the analysis on explicit references to the theoretical contributions of Lukács present in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed, one of the paradigmatic works of the Brazilian pedagogue. The ideas of the non-determination of consciousness by the material structure, the possibility that proletarian consciousness breaks the siege of reification and reverses the hegemonic logic of the bourgeoisie to fight for the transformation of structures of domination, as well as the place which occupies action, practice, organization and revolutionary leadership in this process, are presented in this first analysis as notions in which capillarities between both authors are recorded, beyond the historical and geographical contexts and intellectual traditions in which sign up.