Summary
PREFACE 1
FIRST STEP – THE METAPHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT FOR A NATIONAL PHILOSOPHY: FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM AND INTRODUCTION OF THE TIME FRAME CONCEPT 17
1. Introduction / 2. The argument for national philosophies / 3. Different experiences of doing philosophy and the question of the originality of a national philosophy / 4. Five models or types of intelligentsia / 5. The concept of time frame; the notion of deficiency and its neutralization
SECOND STEP – THE COLONIAL PAST AND ITS LEGACIES: THE ESSENTIAL INTELLECTUAL OF THE CHURCH 69
1. The colonial society of Brazil / 2. Important numbers of the colonial period / 3 The colonial system, the adventitious Luso-Brazilian culture and philosophy / 4. Six arguments for the idea of a colonial philosophy /
5. The Ratio Studiorum, the Jesuits’ system of teaching and the second scholasticism / 6. The Ratio Studiorum and philosophy in colonial Brazil / 7. The ethos of Jesuit pedagogy and the teaching of philosophy: the essential intellectual of the Church and of the Colony / 8. The end of an epoch: legacies of the Ratio Studiorum and new intellectual experiments
THIRD STEP – INDEPENDENCE, THE EMPIRE, AND THE OLD REPUBLIC: THE ESTRANGED INTELLECTUAL 207
1. The structure of post-colonial society / 2. New influences, the establishment of an institutional apparatus and its impact on the national culture 3. The situation of philosophy / 4. The estrangeirado intellectual
FOURTH STEP – THE YEARS 1930-1960 AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INSTITUTIONAL APPARATUS FOR PHILOSOPHY: THE FOUNDATIONS, THE TRANSPLANTING OF THE “SCHOLAR” AND THE HUMANISTIC PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL 333
1. The great breach of the Revolution of 1930: from a post-colonial agrarian society founded on exportation to a modern, urban-industrial society / 2. The intelligentsia and question of nationality / 3. The inauguration of an institutional apparatus for philosophy / 4. A new intellectual figure: the “French Mission” and the specialized scholar / 5. The typical figure of the intellectual of the period: the public humanist intellectual
FIFTH STEP – THE PAST 50 YEARS: THE SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS, BRAZILIAN “SCHOLARS” THE PHILOSOPHERS AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS 429
1. The great turning point of the 1960s / 2. Philosophy in Brazil during the past twenty years: a new intellectual experience / 3. Brazilian philosophers as public intellectuals
SIXTH STEP – CONQUESTS AND PERSPECTIVES: THE “NEW MANDARINS” AND THE GLOBALIZED COSMOPOLITAN INTELLECTUAL 530
1. The paradigm of educational formation and philosophy / 2. The paradigm of post-doctoral formation and the globalized cosmopolitan intellectual
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 551