Between conformity and resistance [electronic resource] : essays on politics, culture, and the state / Marilena Chauí ; translated and edited by by Maite Conde
Since the 1980's, Marilena Cha̕u'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 Cha̕u'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 history₇from the final years of the dictatorship in the 1980s until the present day
The Integralist Imaginary * Notes on Popular Culture * Popular Culture and Authoritarianism * Winds of Progress: The Administered University * Ethics and Violence in Brazil: A Difficult Democracy * The Engaged Intellectual: A Figure Facing Extinction? * On the Present and on Politics * Brazil's Foundational Myth * Power and Freedom: Politics in Spinoza * Religious Fundamentalism: The Return of Political Theology
