Dialética da liberdade em Angela Davis

Abstract

Angela Davis is a philosopher famously known more for her political activism than her philosophical contributions. Having started his studies with Adorno and, later, with Marcuse, after his return to the United States, Davis has been dedicating his investigations to the analysis of the consequences of systemic racism in capitalist societies, emphasizing the traces of slavery present in the prison-industrial-complex, but also trying to highlight the strategies for overcoming oppression, existing since slavery to the present day. In the present work, freedom is the main theme of investigation. We seek to analyze the theoretical and practical assumptions of freedom in the thinking of Angela Davis, as a historical-dialectical and intersectional movement, situated in the context of modern slavery and the experience of black populations in diaspora, the legacy of modern slavery for social and economic relations, as well as the legacy of slave labor performed by black women, the importance of alienated work for the dissemination of a reified reality that reproduces racist stereotypes shared by culture and reinforced by institutional practices. We seek to analyze the subjective and objective aspects of freedom, highlighting the potential for disalienation present in aesthetic education and in the sensitive practice of abolitionist feminism.