Spinozian Practice of a Minor Education

Abstract

The concept of minor education, proposed by Silvio Gallo, in his work published on Educação & Realidade in 2002, is based on a displacement from the concept of minor literature, created by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The aim of this article is to identify Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677), in the context of the XVII century, to the practice of a certain type of minor education. Such identification will be accomplished through the examination of certain aspects of the philosopher’s biography and elements picked from his work. It is shown that Spinoza, in his practice as a teacher, kept a non-institutionalized, deterritorialized and rhizomatic way of educating, as it is defined in the concept of minor education.