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575A sereia e o desavisado: Ideologia Francesa, crítica dialética e a “matéria brasileira”Sinal de Menos 14 228-62. 2020.Since the 1980s, there have been many attempts to bring together Critical Theory of Frankfurtian strain and French theories generally referred to as poststructuralist. The present text seeks to readdress the problem of their tricky articulation by taking a look at some vicissitudes those two currents of thought underwent in Brazil. In addition to the risk – embedded in the Parisian passion for dissolution – of positivizing atrocious aspects of Brazilian society related to the country’s multi-sec…Read more
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381Entre ruína e desespero: negação e constituição do sujeito em Robert Kurz e Slavoj ŽižekSinal de Menos 9 24-59. 2013.The article addresses the treatment given to the notion of subject in Slavoj Žižek and Robert Kurz. Without aiming at a synthesis between the two radically opposed positions, they are played against one another in order to reveal the unidimensional stances and false steps in the field of the constitution of the struggle for a concrete negation of capitalist society.
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372Dialética negativa e radicalismo negro: Angela Davis nos anos 1960Blog da Boitempo. 2018.The article focuses on a chapter of the biography of Angela Davis which, unless mistaken, has not yet received due attention: the training and intellectual experience with her German professors, Herbert Marcuse and Theodor W. Adorno. From the philosophical studies in Frankfurt in the 1960s to the more recent reflections on movements such as Black Lives Matter, there seems to be a continuity in the way she approaches contemporary social reality, a démarche that draws its strength from the origina…Read more
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53Le modernisme récalcitrant de Roberto SchwarzLetterature D'America 43 (195): 99-114. 2023.In contrast to the thesis of a thorough homology between the demystifying vocation of modernism and the profanatory tendencies of capitalist dynamics, the work of Roberto Schwarz seems to provide elements for a more nuanced conception of the modernist experience. While denouncing the setback caused by the routinisation of artistic strategies of defamiliarization, the Brazilian critic remains reluctant to accept the postmodernist assumption that any attempt to give consequence to the modernist un…Read more
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Aesthetics and Culture |
Critical Theory |
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Literature |
Hegel: Dialectic |
20th Century Philosophy |
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