From social rights to the pleasure: discursive itineraries in Library and Science Information

Abstract

This paper aimed to investigate a framework for a philosophy of culture in Library and Information Science from a bibliographical methodological approach. The terminological search focused on the dialogue with the discursive approaches “cultural action”, “cultural animation” and “leisure”, as part of an elaboration of a discourse. The discursive way of describing the indications of a philosophy of culture was presented as the broad horizon of the present reflection. The main question indicated the difficulty, still today, of establishing a discourse on cultural practices and a critical discursive culture on informational practices that allow the understanding of pleasure as a possible and current activity in Library and Information Science (mainly, the relationship between information and culture). From the pre-selected discourses, the evidence of a philosophy of culture and not of a discursive librarian-informational context can be identified from the notions of “cultural action”, “cultural animation” and “pleasure”. We recognized, however, that the frontier here delimited did not point to an extension of philosophy of culture as borderline; from such notions we perceived that we revolved around a single pole, included in a myriad of ways, to an understanding of what is “cultural” in Library & Information Science. We came to the conclusion, however, that these and other conceptual borders lead objectively to a relationship between knowledge, culture and politics. Starting from the results that were brought to us as evidence fronts, we could perceive relational borders that touch a critical landscape going from culture as “pleasure” to “leisure” as a social right of the Brazilian society.