Margins of joy. The Invisible in the formation of the Modern Human Being

Abstract

In this paper we seek to reconcile pedagogy‟s literature and history in order to problematize the values of the Enlightenment Project of Education. We discuss the principles of social, political and educational thought set from the historical moment in which the idea of scientific rationality becomes the core of this aforesaid project. To accomplish this task, we analyze the short tale “Margins of joy” by Guimarães Rosa, enlightened by the allegories of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Having as our purpose to demonstrate how the values of the educational area that contributes for the children to stay protected from the world had being constituted. It is here put in evidence how the shaping of the human being required by the modern project takes the experience/wisdom away from the living spectacle (Erfahrung), in its strong meaning, giving rise just for experience (Erlebnis).