O ressurgimento do sujeito pela escrita autobiográfica: o caso de Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Aline Alves
• Orientador(a): Bittencourt, Libertad Borges
• Banca de defesa: Bittencourt, Libertad Borges , Oliveira , Eliézer Cardoso de, Campos, Raquel Machado Gonçalves
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em História (FH)
• Departamento: Faculdade de História - FH (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Autobiografia; Nikola Tesla; Sujeito; Reconhecimento científico; Invenções
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Nikola Tesla; Autobiographic; Inventions; Subject; Scientific recognition
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7135

This dissertation investigates the status of autobiographical writing for Nikola Tesla (1856- 1943). Not the dawn of the twentieth century, this Serbian-American inventor threw himself into the autobiographical enterprise. In it is present Tesla's eagerness for recognition as a "great inventor" who he believed to be. Its trajectory was characterized by the passage of the glorious moment that it experienced in the scientific community to the process of ostracism in which it was. His decline was not only financial or professional, but especially existential, since his time was what made sense to his life. Convinced of the excellence of his work, Nikola Tesla built an autobiography project, conceived as a concept of perception of the importance of his inventions to the world. For him, only the ideal inventors, who participate that the class of "exceptionally privileged class" would guard the world from eminent destruction. The autobiography was used as a model for Tesla to transform a conception of people, altering the existing world and turning it into an ideal place where its actualization is not more serious through writing, but through its inventions, its main purpose would consist of Safeguard a humanity from the catastrophe. The autobiographical writing was perceived by Nikola Tesla as a resource to transform the existing world, and to resurface as an ideal inventor.