Between Conformity and Resistance [electronic resource] : Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State /
Chauí, M.author.
Since the 1980's, Marilena Chauí's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chauí's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.
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Cover; Halftitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Theory in the World: A General Introduction Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Sources; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation; Introduction Maite Conde; The Engaged Intellectual: A Figure Facing Extinction?; On the Present and on Politics; Religious Fundamentalism: The Return of Political Theology; Power and Freedom: Politics in Spinoza; Brazil: The Foundational Myth; Authoritarian Thought: The Integralist Imaginary; Ethics and Violence in Brazil: A Difficult Democracy; Popular Culture and Authoritarianism; Notes on Popular Culture
Winds of Progress: The Administered UniversityNotes; Index
Includes bibliographical references.
Since the 1980's, Marilena Chauí's writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chauí's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.
Latin America-Politics and government.
World politics.
Literature.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Semiotics.
Fiction.
Latin American Politics.
Political History.
Literature, general.
Latin American Culture.
Semiotics.
Fiction.