A NECESSIDADE DE ESPERANÇA MILITANTE

COMPARAÇÃO ENTRE BLOCH E FREIRE

Abstract

This article take the shape of the discovery of similarities between two authors that seem to be so far geographically and culturally as close for the thought.Ernst Bloch (philosopher, Ludwigshafen, 1885 - Tübingen, 1977) with his own philosophical perspective lays down the base of a new educational practice that seems to be faithfully experienced elsewhere by Paulo Freire (pedagogue, Recife, 1921 - São Paulo, 1997) who is the promoter and activist of his political-ethical project. Freire’s National Literacy Campaign permits slowly rural workers to become literate and hence gain a political consciousness: the workers finally are active subjects of history. Bloch inasmuch thinker of praxis inscribes the thought of a transforming praxis into the world, which is a real laboratory of emancipatory experiments: Freire with his educational work faithfully implements such thought.On the ground of these reasons, Bloch is the thinker of the action, while Freire is the man of action himself. The keywords involved are: militant hope and concrete utopia. For the two thinkers, militant hope is not an abstract and naive optimism, but is deeply rooted in human nature, in particular for Freire is a real “humankind’s ontological necessity”. The concrete utopia’s concept is the crux, since the militant hope and the research for a human’s emancipatory way are actually possible only if the utopia is concrete, that means that is achievable in the world and through the world. Indeed the eu-topos etymologically means “the happy place of hope content’s realization”.For the purpose of my research this article is a starting point, that consists in the detection of a pedagogical freirean tendency in the Bloch’s thought, on the way of a greater knowledge of the Freire’s work in the occidental academic environment, where seems to be still not so well known. The research’s outcome may lead to recognize the effectiveness of Freire’s method and furthermore to experiment it in various underdeveloped countries.