Literary reading and experience

peeking at other possibilities of thinking about education

Abstract

This article aims to narrow down how literary reading can catalyze education through experience. To this end, it uses as a theoretical-methodological tool the problematization based on the studies of Michel Foucault (2006). Article writing is developed in three moments. In the first moment, based on the writings of Jorge Larrosa (2009, 2011, 2016), it approaches the concept of experience and pays attention to what can prevent it. In the second moment, it focuses on studies undertaken by Michel Foucault (2009, 2010, 2013) to tension the experience as that which can both constitute the subject and de-subjectivize it. Finally, a dialogue is established with works produced by the two philosophers mentioned, paying attention to the power that literary reading has to catalyze experiences in those who read. The exercise of thought that this article proposes is strengthened by the interlocutions that are established in it between philosophical references and literary works of different genres and times. It is hoped that the writing of this article will find other teachers and researchers in the educational field, provoking them to ally themselves with philosophy and literature in the invention of other ways of thinking and experiencing education that are not only scientific.