Abstract

AGUIRRE, María Esther. The Commenian Labyrinth or the Longing for a Great Social Transformation (1623). Pedagogía y Saberes [online]. 2021, n.54, pp.9-21.  Epub Feb 04, 2022. ISSN 0121-2494.  https://doi.org/10.17227/pys.num54-11580.

John Amos Comenius (Uhersky Brod, 1592-Amsterdam, 1670) is one of the recurring authors in educational studies, whose contributions in the field of didactics have been praised in a positive key, in forced interpretations of an advanced modernity. Comenius, his work and his adventures are part of the complex topology of the itinerary followed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by many of his interlocutors in the construction of his own intellectual space, thus engaged in coining other knowledge, other relationships, other institutions, other worlds, at the same time does not manage, nor does it wish, to shake off their own stories to build new ones. Approaching the contributions of the thinkers who contributed to shaping the social and cultural order of modernity, through works that account for other facets than those traditionally established, allows us to approach, not without surprise, the meaning of life, to the Axis mundi proposed by Eliade, from which they order the world and their actions in it, a sense to which the total reform of the knowledge and practices in question does not escape. Such is the purpose of this article: to explore some senses of the cultivation of labyrinth images and to analyze some symbolic aspects of the Commenian allegory The Labyrinth of the World (1623) from the perspective of the processes of internal transformation and social reform, ad hoc for moments of uncertainty, of the breakdown of the neoliberal model, of signs of a new social order that is beginning to emerge and, today, they confront us and encourage us to reflect on the prospects for a better quality of life for all.

Keywords : social rearrangement; labyrinth images; symbolic hermeneutics; Commenian world; utopian thought.

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