Banca de DEFESA: ANTONIO MARIO DANTAS BASTOS FILHO

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STUDENT : ANTONIO MARIO DANTAS BASTOS FILHO
DATE: 26/03/2026
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia
TITLE:

Freedom and Marxism: A Marxist Theory of Freedom

KEY WORDS:

freedom; historical materialism; alienation; emancipation; Marx.

PAGES: 284
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Ética
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates freedom as an analytical category of historical materialism, aiming to reconstruct, on the basis of Karl Marx’s work, a Marxian theory of freedom grounded in ontological and historical foundations. It proceeds from the hypothesis that Marx did not abandon the problem of freedom when developing the critique of political economy, but rather reformulated it critically through the articulation of social ontology, the theory of alienation, and the analysis of historically specific forms of sociability. The methodological approach combines rigorous textual exegesis of Marx’s writings with systematic conceptual reconstruction, in dialogue with modern philosophical tradition and contemporary interpreters. The study first examines Marx’s critique of liberal and Hegelian conceptions of freedom, highlighting their abstract character. It then reconstructs the ontological grounding of freedom as conscious vital activity, linked to labor and to the constitution of social being. The dissertation proposes an analytical distinction between anthropological freedom, historical freedom, and abstract freedom, demonstrating their dialectical articulation. The category of historical materialist freedom is formulated as a theoretical synthesis capable of overcoming the dualism between subjectivity and objectivity, affirming freedom as a practical process of conscious reorganization of the material conditions of existence. Finally, the research examines contemporary forms of the negation of freedom, particularly in the dynamics of alienation, self-alienated labor, and the political mediations of contemporary capitalism, underscoring the critical potential of Marx’s conception in light of recent transformations in capitalist sociability. It concludes that freedom, in Marx, constitutes a structuring principle of human emancipation and a central category for the materialist critique of modernity.

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