Adorno and Democracy by Shannon L. Mariotti

Author:Shannon L. Mariotti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2016-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Freire’s own work dealt with oppressed peoples in Latin America, in countries with a legacy of colonialism and violent oppression. But in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, he writes of oppression and alienation in broad terms that allow the tools of his book to transcend their original context. Indeed, his advice contains notable parallels with Adorno’s and also valuably speaks to the condition of citizens in so-called advanced industrial capitalist nations, countries with their own forms of oppression and their own legacy of cultivating a culture of alienation, silence, and dependency on the part of citizens.9

Freire describes a landscape of dehumanizing oppression where the oppressed have adapted to the structures of domination that surround them and have become resigned to their state of unfreedom, coming even to fear the pursuit of freedom. They have internalized their oppression, becoming both alienated and inauthentic. They try to escape from themselves, refusing even “the appeals of their own conscience,” and they prefer “gregariousness to authentic comradeship.”10 They suffer a duality in their innermost being, given that they have always known themselves only in terms of the oppression. This state of unfreedom is written into the fabric of their being:

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