INFÂNCIA: IDADE DA (DES) RAZÃO OU TEMPO DE EXPERIÊNCIA?

Abstract

This dissertation aims to reflect the childhood from a possible concept of experience in Jean-Jacques Rousseau panorama of a education that promotes the construction of a more authentic and compassionate man, approaching the concept of experience in Walter Benjamin. This follows a bibliographical methodology wich dialogues with topics related to childhood, experience, maternity, etc., early childhood education, referenced in several authors. The first chapter intendes to show a little bit of the history of childhood, and of the three main philosophical currents have influenced the vision children and childhood: platonic, augustinian and cartesianismo. The second chapter presents the basic elements of negative education human formation and the experience of this education, which will be the basis for the formation of the reason later particularly in the first three chapters of the book Emilio or Education. The third chapter brings a reflection of the experience concept in of Walter Benjamin studies, the construction of a man who stands outside the events of life without trivialize it, hoe the toy can serve as an instrument for the development of the experience and construction of the language. It is also pointed out in Giorgio Agamben the idea of childhood as the primary place to experience a man more humanized and that uses the language to build themself.