Luiz Philipe de Caux & Felipe Catalani
Traduzione di Felipe Catalani rivista da Giovanni Zanotti
Luiz Philipe de Caux: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (luizphilipedecaux@gmail.com; ORCID: 0000-0002-2458-5563); Felipe Catalani: Universidade de São Paulo (felipecatalani@gmail.com; ORCID: 0000-0001-5133-3145).
Paulo Arantes
The Passage from Two to Zero: Duality and Disintegration in Brazilian Dialectical Thought (Paulo Arantes as a Reader of Roberto Schwarz)
Abstract: We try to explore the repercussion in the work of the philosopher Paulo Arantes of Roberto Schwarz’s ground intuition in his essay “Misplaced ideas”. The point of view of capitalism’s periphery (which overcomes itself as a point of view) not only provides a privileged insight into the ideological operation of societies developing on the fringes of the organic center of capital, but also reveals the truth of the center itself. This model of critique is developed in Arantes’s studies on ideology and in his thesis on the peripherisation of the center of capitalism at the moment of its collapse. We investigate if the material and categorical presuppositions of what gave meaning to “Misplaced ideas” persist at the moment in which the national formation presents itself as finished.
Keywords: National Formation; Dialectics; Ideology; Roberto Schwarz; Paulo Arantes.