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Racism, body and freedom: a philosophy of hitlerism in Brazil today

The article investigates the link between body and freedom as a guiding issue for conceptualizing racism. Based on the reflections developed by Emanuel Levinas, it shows how nazi antisemitism reuses the model of race conceived in the early modern history. It discusses the connections between the modern racist discourse and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Finally, it...

One revision/discussion about the philosophy of science

main theories that polarized the discussions of philosophy of science in the last decades: the theories of Popper and Kuhn on the scientific methodology foundations. ... -words: philosophy of science; scientific methodology     A História da Ciência procura analisar na sua seqüência os fatos científicos: os contextos das descobertas, as crises teóricas, as

A political economy of Drummond’s poetry

The paper seeks toshed light on José Miguel Wisnik’s contribution in his recent book. He integrates the history of development and mining in Brazil, which had as one of its hallmarks the creation of Rio Doce Valley Corporation (CVRD in Portuguese), and Drummond’s poetic invention, deeply affected by the fate of Itabira, his hometown. Time and space are totally shattered by the...

Nostalgia de la muerte by Xavier Villaurrutia within German language philosophical tradition: Heidegger, Rilke, Hegel, Schiller

novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, which is conceptually connected with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectical philosophy and Friedrich Schiller’s humanism. The present work is an interpretation of ... ). Keywords: mexican literature; german philosophy; comparative literature; constitution of the subject; nihilism; humanism Dios es el mundo. La verdad es siempre un contacto interior e inexplicable

The issue of cultural, counter-cultural, and political resistance during the Brazilian military regime – New Architecture Group

In the 1960s, the issue of cultural and political resistance during the Brazilian military regime motivated intense debates and cultural manifestations in various areas of knowledge. In order to

Literature and Secularization in Latin American Modernismo: Celebrations, Homiletics and Porfirism in Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

the richness and complexity of Nájera’s spiritual and religious life as well as his uncompromised alignment with the political agenda of Porfirio Díaz’ regime. For that purpose, a small number of ... biblical exegesis or journalistic debates of political-religious content. Palbrs evcla : Literatura y secularización; Modernismo; Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera; cuaresmas; porfiriato. KorDeyws : Literature and

Por un cigarro… News of a Collective Novel in the Magazine Cómico (1898)

circumstance that took advantage of anonymity to portray the political and cultural tensions between writers and reporters at the end of the 19th century in Mexico.Keywords : Short novel; literary press

When carnival started: political activism in the historic obverse of Homo ludens

occurs in alienation, does not match the historical events we discuss. It is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the "playful" and the "political", and thus we obliquely ... ://nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/COY1_Bringel_Pleyers.pdf>. Acesso em: 12 dez. 2015. 8Cf. WOOD, Ellen. Liberty and property: a social history of western political thought from the Renaissance to

When carnival started: political activism in the historic obverse of Homo ludens

is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the "playful" and the "political", and thus we obliquely rehabilitate Hegel's notion of alienation from Flusser's phenomenological ... ://nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/COY1_Bringel_Pleyers.pdf>. Acesso em: 12 dez. 2015. 8Cf. WOOD, Ellen. Liberty and property: a social history of western political thought from the Renaissance to

When carnival started: political activism in the historic obverse of Homo ludens

is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the "playful" and the "political", and thus we obliquely rehabilitate Hegel's notion of alienation from Flusser's phenomenological ... ://nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/COY1_Bringel_Pleyers.pdf>. Acesso em: 12 dez. 2015. 8Cf. WOOD, Ellen. Liberty and property: a social history of western political thought from the Renaissance to

El Ateneo de la Juventud y la Revolución mexicana

positivism was "the official philosophy of the Porfiriato" from the standpoint of a new conception of the positivist paradigm, and analyzing the three theses which have been put forward about the function of

Ambivalences of the defeat: lessons and limits of Roberto Schwarz’s critique of populism

meaning of political defeat, we argue that Schwarz develops two distinct and intertwined ways of treating the matter: one familiar with the Marxist critique of populism, and the other going beyond those ... notion of democratization. Analyzing those two ways and its dissonances, we reach an ambivalent understanding of political defeat – ambivalence that operates analytically as an index of a closer reading of

History and the dispute of meanings: about the Brazilian authoritarianism

“About Brazilian authoritarianism” proposes to present in an accessible and didactic way the historical roots of Brazilian authoritarianism. This book is linked to a political context of crisis and ... face of the dangers of revisionism, falsification and naturalization of political violence. KEYWORDS Authoritarianism; Brazilian history; Brazilian social thought Para um historiador soaria

Tradição e revolução: Mário de Andrade e o patrimônio histórico e artístico nacional

revolutionary perspective. In this context, the value of tradition does not stand on its own, but insofar as it admits a contemporary and transformative use, both at aesthetic and political spheres.Keywords

Tradition and revolution: Mário de Andrade and the Brazilian cultural heritage

revolutionary perspective. In this context, the value of tradition does not stand on its own, but insofar as it admits a contemporary and transformative use, both at aesthetic and political spheres.Keywords

Michel Foucault, the formation paradigm and June 2013: an interpretation on national (de)formation

The book Enigma do disforme: neoliberalismo e biopoder no Brasil global by Giuseppe Cocco and Bruno Cava takes Michel Foucault’s critique of neoliberalism to offer an interpretation of the political ... political impasses of the Brazilian and Latin American left. In order to do so, it unfolds this critique in two planes: one, so to speak, properly historical, in which one seeks to reinterpret the meanings of

Michel Foucault, the formation paradigm and June 2013: an interpretation on national (de)formation

The book Enigma do disforme: neoliberalismo e biopoder no Brasil global by Giuseppe Cocco and Bruno Cava takes Michel Foucault’s critique of neoliberalism to offer an interpretation of the political ... political impasses of the Brazilian and Latin American left. In order to do so, it unfolds this critique in two planes: one, so to speak, properly historical, in which one seeks to reinterpret the meanings of

Coups of Memory: Political Usages of Olavo Bilac in the Course of the 20th Century

; Ditadura; Serviço Militar; Usos do Passado ABSTRACT This paper aims to provide an overview of political operations that framed the social memory of famous Brazilian poet Olavo Bilac over the 20th ... range of ideological positions ascribed to them at critical moments of Brazilian political history in the 20th century. Finally, some of the convergences and discrepancies between major components of

Coups of Memory: Political Usages of Olavo Bilac in the Course of the 20th Century

This paper aims to provide an overview of political operations that framed the social memory of famous Brazilian poet Olavo Bilac over the 20th century. It will start by showing an image that Bilac ... range of ideological positions ascribed to them at critical moments of Brazilian political history in the 20th century. Finally, some of the convergences and discrepancies between major components of