“Para uma Filosofia do Ato”, de Mikhail Bakhtin: possíveis diálogos com o ato de trabalho

Abstract

This work aims to discuss some architectonic concepts in Mikhail Bakhtin’s work called Toward a Philosophy of the Act (TPA) and to raise possible dialogues with the act of work, since in this context language and activity are interrelated. Thus, we start from the initial concepts of Bakhtin's philosophical proposal, widely discussed in TPA, and we dialogue with one of the ways that the subject act in the world - working -, such as a situated activity and the subject of language is an essential part of it (PORTO, 2011). Our discussions are developed in the course of three sections: i) Act, singularity, responsibility: dialoguing with the advent of Ergonomics; ii) Material ethics and formal ethics: dialoguing with the prescribed work, work done and real work; and iii) First philosophy as philosophy of act: dialoguing with language and work. In each of these, we deal with some reflections of a more general order undertaken by Bakhtin in TPA and, then, from the concepts discussed, we propose as a delimitation to observe possible convergences of these in a more specific context: work. From this dialogue, we conclude that by undertaking an applicability in concrete life and, more specifically, in the work situation, we understand that the act of ethical and responsible work breaks the barriers of obeying the prescriptions, since the worker presents a moral conscience, is involved in a socio-historical and cultural context, acts in relation to the other and is a singular being.