Text in Afrikaans with summaries in Afrikaans and English / Opsomming In hierdie verhandeling word die ontologie van Eriugena in oënskou geneem, met spesifieke verwysing na sy negatiewe ontologie, oftewel sy opvatting van nie-syn. Ter inleiding word daar na die Latynse en Griekse agtergrond van sy ontologie verwys. Dit word opgevolg deur `n bespreking van die verskillende wyses van syn en nie-syn waarvan Eriugena in die Periphyseon gebruik maak. Klem word geplaas op sy negatiewe ontologie, wat meer gevorderd is as enigiets in die Westerse denke tot heelwat na sy leeftyd. Die historiese konteks van Eriugena se lewe en denke word geskets, met inbegrip van die invloede wat op hom ingewerk het en sy eie nawerking. Sy viervoudige verdeling van die werklikheid word vervolgens bespreek, met aanduiding hoedat die ganse werklikheid gesien kan word as `n wisselwerking tussen syn en nie-syn. `n Dinamiese ontologie word dus deur Eriugena voorgehou, eerder as die statiese ontologie wat kenmerkend van veel Judaïsties-Christelike denke is. Summary In this dissertation the ontology of Eriugena is reviewed, with specific reference to his negative ontology, in other words his concept of non-being. By way of introduction the Latin and Greek background of his ontology is pointed out. It is followed by a discussion of the various modes of being and non-being that Eriugena employs in the Periphyseon. Emphasis is placed on his negative ontology, which is more advanced than anything in Western thought until much later than his time. The historical context of Eriugena's life and thought is sketched, including the influences acting on him and the influence he exerted on others. His fourfold division of reality is then discussed, indicating how the whole of reality can be viewed as an interaction between being and non-being. Eriugena thus postulates a dynamic ontology, rather than the static ontology that is characteristic of much of Judaistic-Christian thought. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Religious Studies)

This dissertation concurs with the Jungian postulation that certain psychological archetypes are inclined to be reproduced by the collective unconscious. In turn, these psychological archetypes are revealed to emerge in literature as literary archetypes. It is consequently argued that science fiction has come to form a new mythology because the archetypal images are displaced in a modern, scientific guise. This signifies a shift in the collective world view of humanity, or a shift in its collective consciousness. It is consequently argued that humanity’s collective consciousness has evolved from mythic thought to scientific thought, courtesy of the numerous groundbreaking scientific discoveries of the past few centuries. This dissertation posits as a premise that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s supposition of humanity’s collective consciousness evolving towards what he calls the Omega Point to hold true. The scientific displacement of the literary archetypes reveals humankind’s evolution towards the Omega Point and a cosmic consciousness. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

Francis Schaeffer presented a Christian world and life-view encompassing the totality of reality as an alternative to a fragmented view of reality. Refinements of dualism are examined from within a theological context giving substance to his understanding of modern world and life-view trends. Dualisms may be traced from the dawn of history of religion. It was Thomas Aquinas who profoundly influenced Western thought into a secular compartment through a synthesis of Christian dogma with Aristotelian presuppositions. The reign of the sacred diminished and a predominantly secular pathway may be traced through disciplines such as philosophy, arts, science and theology. This dissertation suggests that a dualistic analysis of reality is limited in its application. A model is suggested which traces all of reality to its ultimate source, God. The Fall brought about a dialectic which is found within the totality of a Christian world and life-view. / Philosophy, Practical & Sytematic Theology / M. Th. (Systematic Theology.

This dissertation is generally concerned with Plato's conception of philosophy, as the conception is ascertainable from the Republic and certain ‘post-Republic' dialogues. It argues that philosophy, according to Plato, is multi-disciplinary; that ‘philosophy' does not mark off just one art or science; that there are various philosophers corresponding to various philosophical sciences, all of which come together under a common aim: betterment of self through intellectual activity. A major part of this dissertation is concerned with Plato's science par excellence, ‘the science of dialectic' (he epistêmê dialektikê). The science of dialectic is distinguished in Plato by being concerned with Forms or Kinds as such; the science of dialectic, alone amongst the philosophical sciences, fully understands what it means for Form X to be a Form. I track the science of dialectic, from its showcase in Republic VI and VII, and analyze its place in relation to the other philosophical sciences in certain post-Republic dialogues. Ultimately, I show that, whilst it is not the only science constituting philosophy, Plato's science of dialectic represents the intellectual zenith obtainable by man; the expert of this science is the topmost philosopher. In this dissertation I also argue that Socrates, as variously depicted in these dialogues, always falls short of being identified as the philosopher par excellence, as that expert with positive knowledge of Forms as such. Yet I also show that, far from being in conflict, the elenctic Socrates and the philosopher par excellence form a complementary relationship: the elenctic philosopher gets pupils to think about certain things in the right way prior to sending them off to work with the philosopher par excellence.

Thesis (MPhil (Philosophy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study critically explores the meaning of difference in continental philosophy. Concomitantly, it reflects on the norm, with regard to, firstly, the authorities within the philosophical community who take it upon themselves to distinguish, on a “corporate” and/or intellectual level, between the normal and that which is different from the norm; secondly, the apparatus of limitation employed to constitute, legitimate and reinforce this distinction, alongside distinctions between the conventional and the peculiar, the traditional and the marginal, the philosophical and the non-philosophical, the essential and the secondary or supplementary, as well as, the same (or subject) and the other. The focus on these distinctions is narrowed to the field of phenomenology, more particularly, how the anthropologistic readings of Phenomenology of Spirit by the exponents of early French phenomenology not only add force to the canonical reception of Hegel as a follower of a philosophical tradition governed by solipsism and individualism, but also perpetuate two traditional concepts; to wit, otherness as something threatening that must be overcome and self-other relationships as inexorably violent. A reinterpretation of the dialectic of recognition reveals not only Hegel’s appreciation of the degree to which subjectivity is indebted to otherness, but also his notion of friendship as the reciprocal preservation of the other’s otherness. This notion of friendship is appropriated by Simone de Beauvoir, whose engagement with Hegel constitutes a radical departure from French phenomenology; by implication, normal practice. Beauvoir, both personally and in her work, confronts the philosophical community with the short-sighted, often destructive, ways in which it delimits the canon, particularly with regard to its “othering” of women and its disregard for the specificity of difference. In keeping with the anthropological spirit of the respective readings of Hegel, the study itself takes the form of an autobiography. It traces the intellectual journey of a non-Western, non-white, non-male scholar, from her sense of not belonging in the world of continental philosophy, to her critical engagement with Hegel, mediated by Beauvoir. In the process it aims to show that otherness matters and how it matters. Furthermore, it calls for writing and reading differently so as to encourage non-hegemonic philosophy. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is ‘n kritiese verkenning van die betekenis van differensie in die kontinentale filosofie. Gepaardgaande hiermee, word besin oor die norm, met betrekking tot, eerstens, diegene wat gesaghebbend binne die filosofiese gemeenskap, d.w.s. met ‘n self-opgelegde mandaat om te onderskei, op ‘n “korporatiewe” en/of intellektuele vlak, tussen die norm en dit wat afwyk van die norm; en tweedens, die begrensing bepaal, wat aangewend word om hierdie onderskeid, tesame met onderskeidings tussen die konvensionele en die eie, die tradisionele en die marginale, die filosofiese en die nie-filosofiese, die sentrale en die sekondêre of aanvullende, asook (die)selfde (of subjek) en die ander, te konstitueer, legitimeer en versterk. Hierdie onderskeidings word ondersoek binne die veld van die fenomenologie; in die besonder, hoe die antropologistiese vertolkings van Phenomenology of Spirit, deur die verteenwoordigers van die vroeë Franse fenomenologie, die kanonieke beeld van Hegel as aanhanger van ‘n filosofiese tradisie, wat deur solipsisme en individualisme aangedryf word, bekragtig en daarmee saam twee tradisionele konsepte bestendig, naamlik, andersheid as ‘n bedreiging wat oorkom moet word en self-ander verhoudings as noodwendig gewelddadig. ‘n Herinterpretasie van die dialektiek van herkenning openbaar nie net Hegel se waarneming van die mate waartoe subjektiwiteit afhang van andersheid nie, maar ook sy idee van vriendskap as die wedersydse behoud van die ander se andersheid. Hierdie nosie van vriendskap word toe-geëien deur Simone de Beauvoir, wie se inskakeling met Hegel radikaal afwyk van die Franse fenomenologie, dus ook van standaard praktyk. Beauvoir, beide in persoon en in haar werk, konfronteer die filosofiese gemeenskap met die kortsigtige, dikwels afbrekende, wyse waarop hul die kanon begrens, veral met betrekking tot hul “be-andering” van vroue en hul minagting van die spesifisiteit van differensie. In ooreenstemming met die antropologiese gees van die onderskeie vertolkings van Hegel, neem die studie self die vorm van ‘n outobiografie aan. Dit volg die intellektuele verkenning van ‘n nie-Westerse, nie-wit, nie-manlike student, aanvanklik vanuit haar gevoel van ontuiswees in die wêreld van die kontinentale filosofie, tot haar kritiese inskakeling met Hegel, bemiddel deur Beauvoir. Hiermee wil die studie wys dat andersheid saak maak en hoe dit saak maak. Voorts beroep dit op ‘n anderse skryf en lees om sodoende nie-hegemoniese filosofie aan te moedig.

《理想國》第六、七卷的主題，尤其是整個第六卷，通常被視為是一個知識論的討論，其中最主要的兩個談論即是線段譬喻與洞穴譬喻，因此如何正確地分別解讀兩者，並將兩者放在一個整全的框架下來理解，即是理解柏拉圖《理想國》知識論最重要的課題。通過本文的討論我們似乎可以看到，柏拉圖把知識與存有與真理連結在一起，並且存有與真理即是相互說明的概念，因此真理即是透過認識活動掌握那個對於存有者的存有之揭示（理念），因此認識能力即是瞭解存有，亦即「由靈魂的眼睛看」。而這個對於存有者的存有之認識活動要能夠獲得實踐，必須仰賴善的理念作為施力者，給予認識者去認識的能力、並將真理賦予給可認識者（理念），兩者在真理作為那個使得存有者的存有可以顯現的力量在認識活動中結合在一起，由此可認識者作為某個「真的」，而分有了真理。於此善的理念作為知識與真理的原因、並由此亦為所有者的存有的終極原因，但善的理念並非垂手可得，我們必須付出努力才可以獲致，獲致的方式是我們必須藉由辯證術與哲學的研究，逐步地自以肉體之眼所見的世界，上登到靈魂的眼睛所注視的純理性世界。 柏拉圖在這裡做了一個很仔細的關於知識要求的描述，以兩個不同的類比—線段和洞穴，去說明達致這個最高的原理原則的路徑，他先在線段譬喻中對知識種類與其對應的靈魂從屬狀態做區分與定義，然後在洞穴譬喻中，由人類在其本性上未受教育的最初狀態，和經過教育或啟發後不同的狀態，來解釋教育、或靈魂必須向上攀升的重要性。 經由對於兩個譬喻以及其他相關的概念之解析，我們將可以發現，柏拉圖在《理想國》中提出的真理觀，清楚地指出了存有者與其存有間有一個連結的關係，在真理作為解蔽性的意義中為心靈所掌握，於此對存有的揭示越多、則越真（越「沒有-遮蔽」），其遮蔽的程度越少；但另方面他又明確地排拒那些在存有者的領域中被他描述為「涉及感知與意見的」，並一再地指出上昇之旅除了「前往、趨近存有」外，亦在於排除感知的影響，在這個意義下，他特別強調數理知識的中介作用，並指出數理圖形與數字的抽象作用，可以幫助靈魂向存有趨近。但持平而論，柏拉圖仍為我們指引出一條通往存有的道路，並將《理想國》的知識論以一個完整的存有論的連結關係展現給我們（雖然不無理論上的困難），要求著我們將「真理」的本質與「存有」緊密結合起來，而哲學研究的目的與任務則明確地被定義為對存有的追問，以及將存有與真理之光帶回到「世界」中。 / The theme of the sixth and seventh Book of Plato’s "Republic", especially the whole sixth Book, is usually considered to be the discussion of the knowledge problem (or the epistemology) ; among them there are two main paragraphs about this issue, they are the divided-line simile and cave simile, so how to understand those two similes separately, and at the same time place them under one whole structure to interpret them correctly, namely is the most important task to understand the knowledge problem of Plato's " Republic ". Through the discussion of this thesis, we could see that Plato connected knowledge together with Being and Truth, and Being and Truth are the concepts which explain each other; so Truth is through knowing activity to grasp the revealing of the beings’ Being (Idea), to know is understanding Being, such as 'seeing by eyes of soul'. And to exercise this knowing activity of the beings’ Being, must be dependent on the Idea of Good as the empowerment, offer the power for the Knower to know, and offer Truth to the Knowable (idea) to be known, the two (the Knower and the Knowable) in Truth as the power that makes the beings’ Being shown connect together in the knowing activity, thus the Knowable been regarded as something ' true', and participated Truth. Hence the idea of Good as the cause of Knowledge and Truth, and also as the ultimate cause of the Being of the all beings, but to reach the Idea of Good is not a easy thing, we must endeavor really hard to obtain the Idea of Good. The way to obtain it is that we have to by means of the research of Dialectic and philosophy, ascend step by step from the world seen by bodily eyes, to the purely rational world seen by soul’s eyes. Plato made a very careful description of knowledge requirement here, with two different similes – divided Line and cave, to interpret the route led to this supreme principle. He first discriminates and defines the classification of knowledge and their corresponding subordinated soul states in the divided line simile, then in the cave simile, he brings up the primitive uneducated state of the human nature, and the different states after educated or enlightened, to explain the importance of education or the upward journey of soul. Via the analysis of two similes and other relevant concepts, we could discover, the Truth View which Plato puts forward in " Republic ", clearly states there is a relation linked between beings and Being, grasped by the mind in the Truth as the Unhiddenness; therefore the more revealing of Being, the truer (more ' un- hidden'), and the less its degree hidden is. But on the other hand he distinctly discards those which he described as ‘involved sensual perception and opinion’ in the field of beings, and constantly points out the upward journey not only about 'going to and close to the Being’, also about discarding the influence of sensual perception. Thus he especially emphasizes the intermediate position of mathematical knowledge, and point out that the abstract function of the mathematical figures and numbers could help soul come toward Being. But generally speaking, Plato still leads us to the road toward Being, and shows us the epistemology of "Republic" with one intact ontology interrelation (though there are still some difficulties in his theory), therefore forces us to integrate the essence of ‘Truth’ and ‘Being’ closely; in this way the purpose and task of philosophic study are clearly defined as the questioning of Being, and bringing the light of Being and Truth back to 'the World'.

Les archives sont aujourd’hui utilisées et envisagées hors de leur lieu traditionnel qu’est le service d’archives et souvent même hors de l’action des archivistes. Cette thèse de doctorat propose un renversement dialectique benjaminien dans la conception de l’archivistique dont le point central devient l’utilisation des archives définitives plutôt que la production des documents. Les premiers chapitres retracent les différentes compréhensions des archives depuis la création des institutions nationales au 19e siècle jusqu’au renouvellement opéré par certains archivistes se réclamant de la postmodernité à la fin du 20e siècle. Cette histoire des archives et de l’archivistique montre que les archives définitives sont caractérisées au regard du rapport au passé qu’elles permettent et que les archivistes pensent leur objet depuis la question historiographique de l’écriture de l’histoire. Ainsi, deux conceptions générales des archives coexistent aujourd’hui et apparaissent comme essentiellement contradictoires en ce que l’une (traditionnelle) est centrée sur le créateur des documents et le passé compris comme l’ensemble des actes posés par le créateur, tandis que l’autre (postmoderne) se fonde sur les fonctions sociales des archives et sur le rôle de l’archiviste. L’élément commun à ces deux visions est l’absence de prise en charge théorique des utilisateurs et de l’exploitation des documents. Or, en suivant les traces et la pensée de Walter Benjamin, nous proposons de penser la double nature des archives comme documents et comme témoignage tout en articulant cette pensée à l’archive comme modalité d’inscription de soi dans le temps. Il en ressort que les archives peuvent être considérées comme une objectivation du passé relevant d’une temporalité chronologique au cœur de laquelle réside, à l’état latent, l’archive potentiellement libératrice. L’exploitation artistique des archives, telle qu’elle est présentée dans le cinquième chapitre, montre comment la notion d’archives explose. En outre, l’observation de ce type particulier d’exploitation permet de mettre au jour le fait que les archives sont toujours inscrites dans des conditions d’utilisation (contexte, matérialité, dispositif, rapport au public) qui sont autant de conditions d’existence de l’archive. Parmi les questions abordées par les artistes celles de la mémoire, de l’authenticité, des archives comme moyen d’appropriation du monde et comme objet poétique sont alors autant de points d’entrée possibles pour revisiter l’archivistique. Le dernier chapitre synthétise l’ensemble des renouvellements proposés au fil de la thèse de manière implicite ou explicite. Nous y envisageons une temporalité non chronologique où les archives sont un objet du passé qui, saisi par un présent dialectique singulier, sont tournées à la fois vers le passé et vers l’avenir. De nouvelles perspectives sont ouvertes pour l’archivistique à partir des caractéristiques assignées aux archives par les artistes. Finalement, c’est le cycle de vie des archives qui peut être revu en y incluant l’exploitation comme dimension essentielle. / This thesis proposes a dialectical reversal in the archival science concept whose central point is the use of archives rather than the production of records. The first chapters outline the various understandings of the archives since the creation of national institutions in the 19th century until a renewed approach done by some archivists defining themselves as postmodernists in the late 20th century. The history of the archives and the archival science shows two coexistent views which appear as essentially contradictory in that one (traditional) is centered on the creator of the records, and the past understood as the set of actions performed by the creator, while the other (postmodern) is based on the social functions of the archives and the archivist’s role. Following the dialectical thought of Walter Benjamin, the fourth chapter proposes to think the dual nature of archives as documents and testimony while articulating that thought about the archive as a means of inscription of self in time. It appears that the archives can be considered as an objectification of the past within a chronological temporality at the heart of which resides, latently, the archive as a potential emancipator. The artistic use of archives as presented in the fifth chapter shows how this particular type of exploitation highlights the fact that the archives are bound by their conditions of use, which are also the conditions of existence of the archive. Among the issues addressed by the artists, those of memory, authenticity, archives as a means of appropriating the world, and as a poetical object become as many possible entry point to revisit the archival science. The last chapter summarizes all the proposed renewals detailed throughout the thesis. We envision a non-chronological temporality where the archives, objects of the past handled by a singular current dialectic, are being oriented towards both the past and the future. New opportunities are being offered for the archival science from the new properties being assigned to the archives by the artists. Finally, it is the life cycle of the archives itself that can be revised by including the exploitation as a key dimension.

Esta pesquisa debruça-se no meu processo de criação atoral no espetáculo Os filhos da Dita, do Núcleo Arlequins da Cooperativa Paulista de Teatro, tendo como base teórico/prática principal o treinamento psicofísico proposto pelo encenador-pedagogo Vsévolod Meyerhold, buscando sublinhar as demandas e possibilidades de uma postura política consequente em cena. A partir das relações estabelecidas desde a escolha do tema, o desenvolvimento da dramaturgia e posterior criação cênica propriamente dita, busco descrever os estímulos e motivações que me conduziram na criação cênica em diálogo com a estética desenvolvida pela companhia há 25 anos, e o posterior contato estabelecido com o espectador. / This research lies on my acting creative process in the play called Os filhos da Dita, of Arlequins (Theatre group that belongs to the Cooperativa Paulista de Teatro), having as main theoretical/practical basis the psycho physical training proposed by pedagogue-director Vsévolod Meyerhold, aiming at underling the demands and possibilities of a consequent political posture on stage. Based on the relationships established with various artists involved in a creative process from choosing the play theme, dramaturgy development and following scenic creation, I describe the stimulus and motives that led me in the scenic creation. The procedures are developed in open dialogue with the esthetics held by the group in the last 25 years, and subsequent contact established with the audience.

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The research was carried through in a Nesting, located in the Zone of Mata of the State of Alagoas, when 65 living citizens of this nesting had been interviewed in the first stage and in the second stage nine citizens, of which only seven had been valid for the purposes of the research and construction of histories of life of the citizens, since the interviewed others had been monossilábicos in its answers. The analysis was guided by the theoretical referencial created by Vygotsky, searching subtexto (affective-volitional base) of it speaks of the interviewed ones to understand the directions and meanings of if becoming one seated agricultural one of the MST. With this analytical procedure one arrived it the following units of felt: Work, Education, Religion and Leisure, all they perpassadas by the unit of bigger direction that is the land. From the results it was arrived conclusion that the citizens had searched the MST for survival necessity, e had been potencializados for the action during all the period of fight for the land and construction of the nesting.When becoming seated agricultural, they were desmobilizaram for the action, with the attitude to wait for the other for the resolution of the problems of the nesting, with few spaces and moments of collective convivência, with the productive work and commercialization of the agricultural products almost always restricted to the lot and the family (in detriment of the collective production). The only factor of mobilization is the religion. All these results point with respect to a form of perverse and precarious inclusion by means of the agricultural nesting, where they lack convivência spaces, allotment and affection; assistance technique adjusted for the production and commercialization of the products; precarious access to the system of public health; unglued education of the reality of the nesting; precarious access to the nesting through roads without asphalt and badly conserved and predominance of the directions proclaimed for religious institutions, that they take them to wait, now, for the land promised in the sky. / Esta dissertação teve por objetivo compreender como se dá o processo de tornar-se um assentado rural, discutindo os sentidos desse processo para os sujeitos desta pesquisa, visando levantar subsídios para refletir sobre a sua potencialidade cidadã e/ou de inclusão perversa. Para tanto foram utilizados os referenciais da Psicologia Sócio-histórica de Vygotsky e do Núcleo de Estudos Psicossociais da Dialética Exclusão/Inclusão Social. A pesquisa foi realizada em um Assentamento, localizado na Zona da Mata do Estado de Alagoas, quando foram entrevistados na primeira etapa 65 sujeitos moradores desse assentamento e na segunda etapa nove sujeitos, dos quais apenas sete foram válidas para as finalidades da pesquisa e construção das histórias de vida dos sujeitos, visto que os outros entrevistados foram monossilábicos em suas respostas. A análise foi orientada pelo referencial teórico criado por Vygotsky, buscando o subtexto (base afetivo-volitiva) da fala dos entrevistados para entender os sentidos e significados de se tornar um assentado rural do MST. Com este procedimento analítico chegou-se às seguintes unidades de sentido: Trabalho, Educação, Religião e Lazer, todas elas perpassadas pela unidade de sentido maior que é a terra. A partir dos resultados chegou-se a conclusão que os sujeitos buscaram o MST por necessidade de sobrevivência, e foram potencializados para a ação durante todo o período de luta pela terra e construção do assentamento.Ao tornarem-se assentados rurais, desmobilizaram-se para a ação, com a atitude de esperar pelo outro para a resolução dos problemas do assentamento, com poucos espaços e momentos de convivência coletiva, com o trabalho produtivo e comercialização dos produtos rurais quase sempre restritos ao lote e à família (em detrimento da produção coletiva). O único fator de mobilização é a religião. Todos esses resultados apontam para uma forma de inclusão perversa e precária por meio do assentamento rural, onde faltam espaços de convivência, partilha e afeto; assistência técnica adequada para a produção e comercialização dos produtos; precário acesso ao sistema de saúde pública; educação descolada da realidade do assentamento; acesso precário ao assentamento através de estradas sem asfalto e mal conservadas e predomínio dos sentidos apregoados por instituições religiosas, que os levam a esperar, agora, pela terra prometida no céu.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Glaucia Tais Purin.pdf: 949434 bytes, checksum: 6c37f2538bba297fe45f131b671bc70c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-08 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research aimed to investigate the power of the FM Community Radio Heliopolis (RCH) to constitute a collective action space, in view of their broadcasters. For this, rescues the history of the issuer, principles, way of planning and contextualizing performance with the history of community radio stations in the world and analyzes the meanings of broadcasters and directors about their role in the community and in the cores of Union structure, Residents Associations Heliopolis Area (UNAS) through its various social projects in places. The theoretical framework adopted is the Socio-Historical Social Psychology especially the theory of Lev. Vygotsky about language and meaning / significance, the reflections about social transformation Silvia T. Lane, the dialectic exclusion / inclusion of B. Sawaia, and in theory affectivity B. Espinosa. The methodology is based on the perspective of qualitative research of ethnological style, using the observation procedure of the radio operation recorded in a field diary, individual semi-structured interviews with the broadcasters and the directors of the issuer, as well as informal conversations also recorded in diary. Together, documents were analyzed from the station and programming documents on Community Radio Heliopolis and UNAS. Thus, data analysis follows the Vygotsky's orientation speech subtext of the search obtained in the field. We understand that the RCH is a product and producer of subjectivity, by producing meanings, and senses, and is also an instrument for mediation in relations to the extent that influences the social, collective, and cultural. The history of RCH and the analysis of the way the interviews indicated its potential to be devised by leaders of the community, run by locals, pioneering in winning the award for the alternative to mainstream media, and also for strength in coping with prejudice that the media itself produces about Heliopolis community, transmitting local information about reality. It also showed that the RCH develops utility functions, transmitting information from the community, encouraging bands or unknown artists; and also with an educational function, training of broadcasters, and transmission of programs and vignettes of educational information, cultural and journalistic, making it a coping strategy to the sale. Although currently be seen emptying the public sphere based on overestimation of intimacy, privacy, the withdrawal and silence, we consider this a North that CRs must not be lost sight of. In this sense, we reflect that to overcome the dichotomy between public and private spheres is necessary to tow the notion of community to its politicization in search of territories able to motivate exchanges of views, wishes and ideas, providing "good meetings" with each other, and thus investing in the power of collective action, and common power capable of preventing disproportionate excesses among themselves, as those that generate poverty and slavery. We believe that the RCH can further explore their educational potential, cultural, participatory and politician, from his affectation and power of collective action together with social movements, reinforcing its reporting role, their struggle for rights, for public policy, by democratizing communication, as well as the participatory democracy / Esta pesquisa objetivou investigar a potência da Rádio Comunitária Heliópolis FM (RCH) para se constituir em espaço de ação coletiva, na perspectiva de seus radialistas. Para tanto, resgata da história da emissora, princípios, forma de planejamento e atuação contextualizando com a história das rádios comunitárias no mundo e analisa os sentidos dos radialistas e diretores sobre seu papel na comunidade e na estrutura da União de Núcleos, Associações de Moradores de Heliópolis e Região (UNAS) mediante seus diversos projetos sociais na locais. O referencial teórico adotado é da Psicologia Social Sócio-Histórica especialmente a teoria de Lev. Vigotski sobre linguagem e sentido/significado, nas reflexões sobre transformação social de Silvia T. Lane, da dialética exclusão/inclusão de B. Sawaia, e na teoria da afetividade de B. Espinosa. A metodologia enquadra-se na perspectiva da pesquisa qualitativa de estilo etnológico, usando o procedimento de observação do funcionamento da rádio registrado em diário de campo, entrevistas individuais semi-estruturadas com os radialistas e a diretoria da emissora, além de conversas informais também registradas em diário de campo. Conjuntamente, foram analisados documentos da programação da emissora e de documentos sobre a Rádio Comunitária Heliópolis e da UNAS. Dessa forma, a análise dos dados segue a orientação de Vigotski da busca do subtexto do discurso obtido no campo. Compreendemos que a RCH é produto e produtora de subjetividades, mediante a produção de significados, e sentidos, e também é um instrumento de mediação das relações, na medida em que influencia na vida social, coletiva, e cultural. A história da RCH e a análise dos sentidos nas entrevistas, indicaram seu potencial por ser idealizada por lideranças da própria comunidade, administrada pelos moradores locais, sendo pioneira na conquista pela outorga, pela alternativa a mídia hegemônica, e também pela resistência no enfrentamento ao preconceito que a própria mídia produz sobre a comunidade de Heliópolis, transmitindo informações locais sobre a realidade. Mostrou também que a RCH desenvolve funções de utilidade pública, transmitindo informações da própria comunidade, incentivando bandas ou artistas desconhecidos; e também com uma função educativa, de formação dos locutores, e na transmissão de programas e vinhetas de informação educativa, cultural e jornalística, tornando-se uma estratégia de enfrentamento à alienação. Apesar de atualmente se observar o esvaziamento da esfera pública baseada na hipervalorização da intimidade, da privacidade, do retraimento e silêncio, consideramos este um norte que as RCs não se podem perder de vista. Neste sentido, refletimos que para superar a dicotomia entre esfera pública e privada é preciso atrelar a noção de comunidade a sua politização em busca de territórios capazes de motivar trocas de opiniões, vontades, e ideias, proporcionando bons encontros com o outro, e investindo assim na potência de ação coletiva, e no poder comum capaz de impedir os excessos desproporcionais entre si, como os que geram a miséria e a escravidão. Acreditamos que a RCH pode explorar ainda mais seu potencial educativo, cultural, participativo e político, a partir de sua afetação e potência de ação coletiva em conjunto com movimentos sociais, reforçando seu papel de denúncia, sua luta por direitos, por políticas públicas, pela democratização da comunicação, assim como pela democracia participativa