O CONCEITO DE NATUREZA EM GRAMSCI: CONTRIBUIÇÕES PARA A EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL

by Protásio, Alexandre Reinaldo

The question of research of this work consisted of the inquiry of the nature concept, its evolution, in the letters, articles and theoretical texts of the Italian marxist Antonio Gramsci. The objective study to include Gramsci in the script of the future research in the field of the Ambient Education, contributing theoretically with the PPGEA. It was used bibliographical revision as method of research and descriptionof the primary sources. To contextualizar the study of Gramsci in the field of the Ambient Education, it was analyzed conception of Transforming Ambient Education and the concept of nature in the perspectives of the main theoreticians of liberalism and the marxism. The research searched to present the no-dogmatic vision of the gramscian marxism, accumulating of stocks the concepts of freedom, history, dialectic, civil society and politics. The concept of nature in Gramsci crossed great epistemologics transformations and politics, passing for a liberal and idealistic vision during youth, under influence of Benedetto Croce, until the approach with the marxism in the maturity. Between years 1932 and 1933, the nature concept reaches the more advanced dialetic content, completing the purification of the idealistic elements. The considerations contained in this study admit to include Gramsci in the group of the classic authors who must be consulted as base for the socie-ambient studies.