José Guilherme Merquior
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José Guilherme Merquior
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| Birth | April 22, 1941 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| Death | January 7, 1991 (aged 49) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| School/tradition | Liberalism |
| Main interests | Literary criticism, History of ideas, Aesthetics, Politics, Sociology, International relations |
| Influenced by | Ernest Gellner, Walter Benjamin, Leszek Kołakowski, Karl Jaspers, Karl Marx, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gilberto Freyre, Benjamin Constant, Roberto de Oliveira Campos |
José Guilherme Merquior (Rio de Janeiro, April 22, 1941 — Rio de Janeiro, January 7, 1991) was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher. He divided his published works in two segments; in one the bulk was criticism per se; in the other the emphasis was the history of ideas, or more specific investigations like the highly-esteemed study of Rousseau and Weber.
He was a prolific writer, and member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (the Brazilian Academy of Letters). He had a doctorate in sociology from the London School of Economics, which was directed by Ernest Gellner. Merquior also studied under Lévi-Strauss, and took guidance from the likes of Raymond Aron, Harry Levin, and Arnaldo Momigliano. He published books written directly in French, English, Italian, and his native Portuguese.
[edit] Books by Merquior
- Published in portuguese
- 1963: Poesia do Brasil, (antologia com Manuel Bandeira)
- 1965: Razão do Poema
- 1969: Arte e Sociedade em Marcuse, Adorno e Benjamin
- 1972: A astúcia da mímese
- 1972: Saudades do Carnaval
- 1974: Formalismo e tradição moderna
- 1975: O estruturalismo dos pobres e outras questões
- 1975: A estética de Lévi-Strauss
- 1976: Verso e universo de Drummond
- 1977: De Anchieta a Euclides
- 1980: O fantasma romântico e outros ensaios
- 1981: As idéias e as formas
- 1982: A natureza do processo
- 1983: O argumento liberal
- 1983: O elixir do Apocalipse
- 1985: Michel Foucault ou O niilismo da cátedra
- 1987: O marxismo ocidental
- 1990: Crítica
- 1990: Rousseau e Weber: dois estudos sobre a teoria da legitimidade
- 1991: De Praga a Paris: uma crítica do estruturalismo e do pensamento pós-estruturalista
- 1991: O liberalismo, antigo e moderno
- 1997: O véu e a máscara
- Published in english
- 1979: The veil and the mask: Essays on culture and ideology
- 1980: Rousseau and Weber: Two studies in the theory of legitimacy
- 1987: From Prague to Paris: A Critique of Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Thought
- 1991: Western Marxism
- 1991: Liberalism, Old and New
- 1991: Foucault
- Published in french
- 1986: Foucault ou le nihilisme de la chaire
- Published in spanish
- In memoriam
- 1996 Liberalism in Modern Times - Essays in Honour of José G. Merquior. Edited by Ernest Gellner and César Cansino
