Abstract
The paper studies the citizen emancipation proposals in the autobiographies of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) and Nelson Mandela (1918-2013). To this, it focuses on the concept categories: “love being” (FROMM, 1956, 1976); trans-utilitarian (FROMM, 1977); the practice of nonviolence (MULLER, 2007); dialogue (SENNETT, 2012; RESTREPO, 1998); communication rights (PERUZZO, 2009) and human rights (GALLARDO, 2014; BOBBIO, 2004; MARSHALL, 1967), of the content analysis (KRIPPENDORFF, 1990; FONSECA JÚNIOR, 2015), which added to the hermeneutic analysis (THOMPSON, 2011) compose the methodological path traced. As a result, one can observe the ability to mediate, from the dialogic and active experience, developing in front of conflicts and different situations of human rights, the potentiality of being and acting for collective well-being.
Keywords
Emancipation; Citizenship; Autobiographies; Gandhi; Luther King Jr.; Mandela