Marilena de Souza Chaui
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Born | Pindorama, State of Sao Paulo | September 4, 1941
Profession | philosopher, professor |
Marilena de Souza Chaui (born September 4, 1941) is a Brazilian philosopher and Professor of Modern Philosophy in the University of São Paulo. She is a scholar of Baruch Spinoza and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Chaui is one of the founding members of Workers' Party and an assiduous critic of the capitalist model.[1]
Life[]
Chaui is a Professor of Political Philosophy and History of Modern Philosophy in the University of São Paulo, having been awarded a master's degree in 1967, and received her doctorate in 1971 with the essay "Introduction to Reading Spinoza", under the guidance of Professor . In 1977, she taught Philosophy in the University of São Paulo.[2]
Her book was selected by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Brazil as a mandatory textbook in public schools, becoming a bestseller with over a hundred thousand copies sold. Chaui had served as Municipal Secretary of Culture of São Paulo, from 1989 to 1992, during the administration of Luiza Erundina (1988-1992). In 2013, during the release of the book "10 Years of Post-Liberal Government in Brasil: Lula and Dilma"
Family[]
Chaui is the daughter of the journalist , of Arabic origin, and teacher . She was married to the journalist , with whom she had two children - José Guilherme and Luciana. She is currently married to Michael Hall, a historian and professor at the State University of Campinas.
Partial bibliography[]
She is the author of, among others,
- O que é Ideologia? (What is Ideology?)
- Escritos sobre a Universidade (Writings on University)
- Cultura e Democracia: o discurso competente e outras falas (Culture and Democracy: The competent speech and other speeches )
- Da realidade sem mistério ao mistério do mundo: Espinosa (Spinoza, Voltaire e Merleau-Ponty (From the Reality without mysteries to the Mystery of the World: Spinoza, Voltaire and Merleau-Ponty)
- A nervura do real: Imanência e Liberdade em Espinosa (The rib of the real: Immanence and Freedom in Spinoza )
- Espinosa e Política em Espinosa (Spinoza and Politics in Spinoza)
- Repressão Sexual (Sexual repression)
- Brasil: Mito Fundador e Sociedade Autoritária ( Brazil: Founding Myth and Authoritarian Society)
- Introdução à História da Filosofia (Introduction to the History of Philosophy)
- Convite à Filosofia (Invitation to Philosophy)
- Cidadania Cultural (Cultural citizenship)
- Simulacro e poder (Simulacrum and power)
References[]
- ^ Rodrigues, Fania (4 April 2017). "Marilena Chauí: "Universidades devem entender que fazem parte da luta de classes"". Brasil de Fato (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
- ^ Marilena de Souza Chauí, usp.br, Retrieved 4 September 2016
External links[]
- 1941 births
- Living people
- Brazilian philosophers
- Workers' Party (Brazil) politicians
- University of São Paulo faculty
- University of São Paulo alumni
- Commanders of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
- Brazilian women philosophers
- 20th-century Brazilian philosophers
- Political philosophers
- Women political writers
- 20th-century Brazilian women writers
- Spinoza scholars