O CENTENÁRIO PAULO FREIRE - O LEGADO DE UMA OBRA CINQUENTENÁRIA CONTRA OS “GABINETES DO ÓDIO”

Abstract

PAULO FREIRE CENTENARY WITH A CINQUENTENARY BOOK This article recalls that the best way to honor a thinker is to demonstrate the timeliness of his work. Pedagogy of the oppressed, Paulo Freire’s best-known work, completed 50 years of its first edition in 2020. In the centenary of Paulo Freire’s birth, on September the 19th, 2021, it turns 51 and continues to lead, of all the works of Brazilian thinkers spread throughout the world, in hundreds of translations and editions and in millions of copies sold, in a demonstration of its importance in the 21st century. The article historically reconstitutes the elaboration of the originals and the trajectory of the editions, with emphasis on the first ones, especially the one carried out in Brazil, because of its prohibition imposed by the military dictatorship that had settled in the country in April 1964 and which Paulo Freire, as well as his thought as “subversive” of the imposed autocratic order. The neoconservative wave that runs through today part of Brazilian society tries, without success, to exile him again, even if posthumously, as well as to banish his thought.