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Since the 1980´s, Marilena Chauí´s writing has had a profound impact in Brazil, contributing to the academic conversation and resonating in popular culture. Here, in English for the first time, are ten of Chauí´s most important essays, with an introduction by Maite Conde which situates the scholarship in the global context.

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The Integralist Imaginary Notes on Popular Culture Popular Culture and Authoritarianism Winds of Progress: The Administered University Ethics and Violence in Brazil: A Difficult Democracy The Engaged Intellectual: A Figure Facing Extinction? On the Present and on Politics Brazil´s Foundational Myth Power and Freedom: Politics in Spinoza Religious Fundamentalism: The Return of Political Theology

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MARILENA CHAUÖ is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since the 1980s, Chauí´s writings have had a profound impact in Brazil, achieving both academic recognition and unprecedented popular success. Chauí´s far-reaching work has been formative for a new generation of intellectuals and led to innovative research regarding relations between culture, politics, and the state across the humanities and social sciences.

MAITE CONDE is a Research Fellow at The Brazil Institute, King´s College, University of London, UK.

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