Between Conformity and Resistance: Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State (Theory in the World)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Introduction....Pages 1-14 The Engaged Intellectual: A Figure Facing Extinction?....Pages 15-38 On the Present and on Politics....Pages 39-55 Religious Fundamentalism: The Return of Political Theology....Pages 57-82 Power and Freedom: Politics in Spinoza....Pages 83-112 Brazil: The Foundational Myth....Pages 113-140 Authoritarian Thought: The Integralist Imaginary....Pages 141-151 Ethics and Violence in Brazil: A Difficult Democracy....Pages 153-167 Popular Culture and Authoritarianism....Pages 169-193 Notes on Popular Culture....Pages 195-213 Winds of Progress: The Administered University....Pages 215-236 Back Matter....Pages 237-256 Since the 1980's, Marilena Chau̕'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 Chau̕'s most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates and the scholarship in the global context. Organized chronologically, the essays chart an intellectual trajectory that offers a philosophical inquiry into Brazil's political, social, and cultural history--from the final years of the dictatorship in the 1980s until the present day Since the 1980's, Marilena Chaui'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 Chaui's most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.