A Idade do Livro e o Silêncio da Biblioteca

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the concepts and the functions of the library over time and to verify how the production of truths operates in the field of education, showing that the library, as a social product, is also pervaded by power relations and, to understand the poetic dimension of knowing. It presents the formation of the libraries, of the knowledge, of the truths, at different times: in the Renaissance, in the antiquity, in the Classical Era and in the Modernity. To avoid the risk of being lost in time and by the forgetfulness, brackets to house and preserve the sayings that were written in clay, stone, metal, wood, leather, papyrus, parchment, paper and virtual are presented in different historical period. It is also examined the functioning of the school towards politically passive society (panoptic), for which Foucault instigates the intellectual (the educator) to resist the prescribed truths because they have expiration dates. And through language, it gives voice to the library that has long been and is still denied to silence. The library is the space of scientific and poetic knowledge (slope almost silenced by the theories applied in the school). The library as a possibility of discovery has been a place devoid of life. When it is asked whether the libraries, especially the public ones, contribute to the formation of male and female readers, this study brought to light, a discouraged affirmative, alias, a negative. Like in a tripod, the theoretical support came primarily from the works of Bachelard, Chartier and Foucault.