Intellectuals and the Search for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781107417618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Ronald H. Chilcote

Opis

This book focuses on changing political thought in twentieth-century Brazil.

Recenzje

'This book reflects the breadth of engagement with the progressive intelligentsia of Rio and São Paulo by a passionate US observer committed to national and social liberation. Drawing on a half-century of interviews and dialogue, Ronald H. Chilcote's survey nicely complements and extends earlier works by Carlos Guilherme Mota and Daniel Pecaut. Spanning seventy-five years in coverage, the book underlines a point made by Portuguese Nobel Prize recipient José Sarmago: for far too long 'the error of the Marxist left has been to think that the weapons of the past will always serve to win the battles of the present'.' John D. French, Duke University, North Carolina

Spis treści

Introduction: the intellectual in theory and practice; 1. Intellectuals and political thought in twentieth-century Brazil; 2. Developmental nationalism and the Rio movement; 3. Nationalism and Marxism in the São Paulo movement; 4. Capitalism and the bourgeois revolution: understanding development and underdevelopment; 5. The pursuit of democracy; Conclusion.