This paper discusses to what extent reification can help education seize the aesthetization processes of the world of life. In the course of cultural training, dialectics has opposed the individual or self to the world. This process of alienation or estrangement from the other was leading to a gradual advance of the spirit towards a kingdom of greater freedom. Marx subverted this relation when he said reification occurred in the opposite direction, that is, the materiality of alienated labor regressively transformed the subject in something always equal, in an object, in a thing, in the same. When it evaluated the contributions of visual culture, education also got divided: does it in fact represents the assumption of the same or the other, the living or the dead. It is worth analyzing whether a reading of these aesthetization processes from this category point of view, here understood in the hermeneutic sense, provides a way out of this dead-end.
Aesthetization; Reification; Formation