O ovo do ornitorrinco
A trajetória de Francisco de Oliveira
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5778947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Flávio Da Silva Mendes (0000-0003-1964-0385, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.47749/t/unicamp.2015.946109 |
| OpenAlex | W4205340782 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This doctoral dissertation is dedicated to the study of Francisco de Oliveira's trajectory.Born in Recife (1933), the sociologist worked alongside Celso Furtado in SUDENE between 1959 and the beginning of the civil-military dictatorship, in 1964.At the end of that decade, in São Paulo, he joined other intellectuals in the newly created CEBRAP, which would become an important think tank on the Brazilian reality and political opposition to the authoritarian regime.In 1972, linked to that group, Francisco de Oliveira published his famous essay Crítica à razão dualista, a constant reference in political and economic debates of his generation.A few years later, in 1977, he released Elegia para uma re(li)gião, a critical analysis of the performance of SUDENE integrated to a discussion on the regional issues.In the late 1970s, the sociologist engaged in the struggle for democracy and the creation of the Partido dos Trabalhadores.His texts in the followingdecade are balanced between the optimism provided by the national context and concerns about the transformations of global capitalism, which imposed new challenges to Social Sciences.Over the 1990's the defeat of his political beliefs and the growth of a democracy with a liberal bias deepened the pessimistic tone of his works and fed the diagnosis of Brazil as a nation stucked to an evolutionary dead end, as suggested by the metaphor presented in O ornitorrinco.The interpretation of his work reveals details of how a generation of Brazilian intellectuals conceived the national development, and it discloses some of their disappointments on this process
Dictatorship · Opposition (politics · Pessimism · Brazilian cultural history and politics · Social and Economic Solidarity · Urban Development and Societal Issues
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |