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====== Brazilian Philosophy ====== | ====== Brazilian Philosophy ====== | ||
- | In an essay published in German in Staden-Jahrbuch | + | In an essay published in German in Staden-Jahrbuch (“Brasilianische Philosophie” [Brazilian Philosophy], |
- | (“Brasilianische Philosophie” [Brazilian | + | |
- | Philosophy], | + | Flusser assigns first place to Oswald de Andrade as the most important Brazilian philosopher of the twentieth century. De Andrade’s |
- | philosophy. First, he subsumes the subject | + | |
- | of Brazilian philosophy under his original question | + | //Original article by [[: |
- | as to the relevance of geopolitical criteria | + | |
- | for philosophy, and acknowledges that it is possible | + | // |
- | for philosophizing to absorb influences from | + | |
- | the geopolitical environment. In this way, Flusser | + | |
- | points to the Brazilian influences on universal | + | |
- | thought. | + | |
- | Flusser assigns first place to Oswald de Andrade | ||
- | as the most important Brazilian philosopher of the | ||
- | twentieth century. De Andrade’s thought revolves | ||
- | around the idea of “game,” on the one hand, and | ||
- | the dialectical pairing of “revolution” and “dogma, | ||
- | on the other. These ideas pervade de Andrade’s | ||
- | entire oeuvre – plays, novels, poetry, and particularly | ||
- | his book A Crise da Filosoa Messiânica [The | ||
- | Crisis of Messianic Philosophy] (1950). Thus the | ||
- | ideas are not only articulated in the discursive | ||
- | language of academic philosophy, but also in his | ||
- | games with words, images, concepts, and actions | ||
- | (de Andrade was an unremitting performer, both in | ||
- | his life and his art). He was a central figure in the | ||
- | art movements of 1922 (Semana de Arte Moderna, | ||
- | the “Modern Art Week”) and 1928 (Anthropophagic | ||
- | Movement). His “Cannibal Manifesto, | ||
- | Antropófago (1928), includes a program for a free | ||
- | society, without classes and based on matriarchy. | ||
- | De Andrade applied for the chair of philosophy at | ||
- | the University of São Paulo, but was rejected. | ||
- | Thanks to the path marked out by Oswald de | ||
- | Andrade, a second generation emerged, in which | ||
- | Flusser included himself, along with Vicente Ferreira | ||
- | da Silva, Leônidas Hegenberg, and Miguel | ||
- | Reale. In addition, Flusser also talks about a | ||
- | “new generation, | ||
- | students. However, he does not mention them by | ||
- | name; he only refers to some of their approaches. | ||
- | For instance, he mentions the change of priority: | ||
- | away from anthropology and toward a focus on | ||
- | the void (Bodenlosigkeit, | ||
- | or ethical, aesthetic, and ontological aspects of | ||
- | the apparatus. | ||
- | //Original article by Norval Baitello, Jr.// |
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