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Main interests. Literary criticism, history of ideas, aesthetics, politics, sociology, international relations, Political philosophy. José Guilherme Merquior (April 22, 1941 – January 7, 1991) was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher.
José Guilherme Alves Merquior (Rio de Janeiro, 22 de abril de 1941 — Ibidem, 7 de janeiro de 1991) foi um crítico literário, ensaísta, diplomata, sociólogo e cientista político brasileiro, membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras. [1]
In the critical volume, Foucault (1985), the philosopher José Guilherme Merquior said that the value of Madness and Civilization as intellectual history was diminished by errors of fact and of interpretation that undermine Foucault's thesis—how social forces determine the meanings of madness and society's responses to the mental disorder of ...
- Michel Foucault
- 1961
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Foucault is a book by José Guilherme Merquior about the French philosopher Michel Foucault, first published in 1985. Overview [ edit ] Merquior's assessment of Foucault's work is largely negative; he argues that Foucault's work is marked by factual errors and questionable arguments.
Merquior brings an astonishing breadth of scholarship to bear on his subject as he explores Foucault using insights from a range of fields including philosophy, sociology, and history. In this...
José Guilherme Merquior was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher.
O propósito deste trabalho é interpretar as discordâncias do ensaísta e diplomata José Guilherme Merquior (1941-1991) em relação ao marxismo, de forma a entender de que forma sua crítica, antes restrita a temas estéticos e culturais, adquire contornos políticos, sociológicos e epistemológicos.
