O ato de classificar em Arthur Bispo do Rosário : um inventário dissidente

Abstract

Based on the assumption that classification is an operation characterized by understanding the world, aiming at its ordering and, subsequently, guiding human actions, the starting question of this research is: based on the unreason, disorder and linguistic disorientation of the world , how does the classification scheme for inventorying the world developed by Arthur Bispo do Rosário affect and distort the scientific plans of modern classification? This work seeks to investigate the scope of the concept of classification beyond the scientific, bibliographic and documentary dimensions, with the objective of comparing the classification principles present in bibliographic systems and in Arthur Bispo do Rosário's inventory of the world. Its specific objectives are: i) Represent the principles of the classification concept; ii) Outline the systemic steps of bibliographic classification schemes, in particular, the Dewey Decimal Classification (CDD) and the Universal Decimal Classification (CDU); iii) Present the classificatory elements of Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s inventory of the world; iv) Comparatively associate systemic and anti-systemic schemes in order to demonstrate the similarities and differences between the analyzed classifications. The methodology of this research is characterized by its qualitative nature, with an exploratory purpose. The data collection technique occurred via bibliographic research on the following academic-scientific publication platforms: Brapci, Oasisbr. As a result, it was possible to identify in the work of Arthur Bispo do Rosário that classification is an instrument of representation of fallen things in the world. However, its teleological purpose is not associated with the recovery of these objects in the human world degenerated by original sin, but Bispo do Rosário's classification is destined to guide us towards the redeemed rediscovery of these objects in the kingdom of heaven, as was also the intention of Francis Bacon, however, through science. Therefore, classification is an instrument (organon) of redemption for the final judgment day. On this day of secular closure, Bispo do Rosário imagined that in a transcendent way we will present ourselves to God and renew our lives in an Adamic way.