Foucault in Brazil : dictatorship, resistance, and solidarity / Marcelo Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Marcelo, author.

Series:

Pitt Illuminations Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military government--Brazil--History--20th century.

Military government.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Travel--Brazil.

Foucault, Michel.

Genre:

Indexes

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2024]

Summary:

Philosopher Michel Foucault's cultural criticism crosses disciplines and is well known as an influence on modern conceptions of knowledge and power. Less well known are the five trips he took to Brazil between 1965 and 1976. Although a coup in 1964 had installed a military dictatorship, Foucault kept his opinion on the Brazilian government largely to himself until October 23, 1975. On that date, he delivered a manifesto at a student assembly in São Paulo expressing his solidarity with students and professors protesting a wave of arrests and torture. This manifesto caught the government's attention and became the focal point of the dictatorship's surveillance of Foucault. Foucault in Brazil explores the production of the public antagonism between the philosopher and the dictatorship through a meticulous consideration of each of his visits to Brazil. Marcelo Hoffman connects history, philosophy, and political theory to open new ways of thinking about Foucault as a person and thinker and about Brazil and authoritarianism.

Contents:

On the production of a public antagonism in Brazil

Political dialogues around a conspicuous silence : Foucault in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte in 1973

Provocations in a history of social medicine : Foucault in Rio de Janeiro in 1974

The moment of rupture : Foucault in São Paulo in 1975

Channeling Marx, amplifying solidarity : Foucault in Salvador in 1976.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822991250

082299125X