The personalist education and the changing of society: contributions of Louis Althusser and Emmanuel Mounier

Abstract

This article presents the proposal of Emmanuel Mounier and criticism of Louis Althusser in relation to capitalist education and articulates a contact between these two positions. Such it is not one which aims a consensus for the two authors, but one which seeks to point out how we can combine the alienation danger’s awareness in education along with the hope the education itself must represents if it is developed with due care (just to avoid the mentioned danger), having in order an integral concept of person, what it is achieved whether education may be understood not only as instruction, but also as formation. With this approach it is possible the person grows not only inside an instruction to some profession, but indeed inside a true formation to liberty.