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Between Conformity and Resistance

Essays on Politics, Culture, and the State

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  • © 2011

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  1. Marilena Chauí
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Part of the book series: Theory in the World (TW)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Maite Conde
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Engaged Intellectual: A Figure Facing Extinction?

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 15-38

  4. On the Present and on Politics

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 39-55

  5. Religious Fundamentalism: The Return of Political Theology

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 57-82

  6. Power and Freedom: Politics in Spinoza

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 83-112

  7. Brazil: The Foundational Myth

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 113-140

  8. Authoritarian Thought: The Integralist Imaginary

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 141-151

  9. Ethics and Violence in Brazil: A Difficult Democracy

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 153-167

  10. Popular Culture and Authoritarianism

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 169-193

  11. Notes on Popular Culture

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 195-213

  12. Winds of Progress: The Administered University

    • Marilena Chauí
    Pages 215-236

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-256
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About this book

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.

About the author

MARILENA CHAUÍ is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since the 1980s, Chauí's writings have had a profound impact in Brazil, achieving both academic recognition and unprecedented popular success. Chauí's far-reaching work has been formative for a new generation of intellectuals and led to innovative research regarding relations between culture, politics, and the state across the humanities and social sciences.

MAITE CONDE is a Research Fellow at The Brazil Institute, King's College, University of London, UK.

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