Philosophy at school as a basis for building the Modern Discursive Space? An analysis of the relationship between education and philosophy based on the works of Vinicius Berlendis de Figueiredo

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https://doi.org/10.5380/sk.v23i3.100318

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Modern Discursive Space, imagination, understanding, philosophy education, Vinicius de Figueiredo

Abstract

The article focuses on the concept of modern discursive space, defined by Vinicius de Figueiredo based on an analysis of the Kantian Critiques, in order to verify its presence, albeit in germ, in the pedagogical-philosophical project adopted by the Brazilian author and in his works related to this theme. The hypothesis behind the research is that the Brazilian author’s commitment to teaching philosophy which, while allowing freedom of approach between universal philosophical questions and the prosaic lives of teachers and students, requires a strong grounding in classical texts and knowledge of the history of such questions (and not the history of authors in a timeline) follows a similar approach to his interpretation of the relationship between the categories of imagination and understanding in the formation and justification of the existence of such a discursive space, with a constant dialog between these elements in his work.

Author Biographies

Benito Eduardo Araujo Maeso, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Professor at IFPR (Federal Institute of Paraná) and at PGFILOS/UFPR (Graduate Program in Philosophy), professor in the Technical Residency and lato sensu Graduate Program in Cultural Management (FAP/UNESPAR). PhD in Political Philosophy (UFPR), Master’s degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (USP), Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (UFPR). Research lines: Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Culture Industry, Frankfurt School, Adorno, contemporary French philosophy, Deleuze, administered and control societies, ethics and subjectivity, neoliberalism, technology, political economy of information, Marx studies. Member of the Espinozan Studies Group (USP), the DeleuzeGuattari Working Group of ANPOF, the Brazilian Philosophical Thought Working Group – ANPOF, the Research Group in Philosophy, Human Sciences and Other Systems of Thought – UNIMONTES/CNPq, and the research project “Paradoxes of Emancipation: Knowledge and Democracy in the Age of Post-Truth” – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Centre Marc Bloch (Humboldt University/EHESS – Paris) / University of São Paulo – USP. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher on politics, fake news, and subjectivity at FFLCH/USP and leader of the CNPq Working and Research Group Histories of Philosophies (IFPR/UFPR/USP/CNPq).

Paulo Vieira Neto, UFPR - Federal University of Paraná

Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of Paraná.

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2026-01-31

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Maeso, B. E. A., & Vieira Neto, P. (2026). Philosophy at school as a basis for building the Modern Discursive Space? An analysis of the relationship between education and philosophy based on the works of Vinicius Berlendis de Figueiredo. Studia Kantiana, 23(3), 141–148. https://doi.org/10.5380/sk.v23i3.100318

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