Paulo Freire, mais do que nunca, incontornável e imprescindível

Abstract

What would justify the writing of a biography about Paulo Freire 22 years after his death and 51 years after the publication of his most important book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"? We already have biographical studies of the eminent educator from Pernambuco, such as the works of Moacir Gadotti (1996), Maria Jose Vale (2005), Carlos Rodrigues Brandao (2005), Tom Wilson, Peter Park and Anaida Colon-Muniz (2010), in addition to the deep historical elegy written by his companion of recent years, Ana Maria de Araujo Freire (2005). What brings as a novelty, the study of Walter Kohan (2019), "Paulo Freire, more than ever: a philosophical biography"?