Interpreters from Brazil: classics, rebels and renegades

Abstract

The collection Interpreters of Brazil: classics, rebels and renegades, organized by Luiz Bernardo Pericás and Lincoln Secco, brings together articles dedicated to the presentation of 25 Brazilian thinkers, whose productions took place between the 1920s and 1990s. Although it is written in a recent movement of Brazilian academia to recover the biography, work and thought of its intellectuals, as is the case, above all, of the books that focused on the great “essayists” of the 1930s generation, Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Jr. ., this work inaugurates an effort to significantly expand the scope of the conception of interpreters in Brazil. By prioritizing the articulation between the understanding of the historical process and the dynamics of the class struggle and intervention in the country's social reality, the organizers incorporate authors forgotten and/or rejected by the academic world, stimulating critical reflection on the criteria that underpinned the formation of the canons of Brazilian social thought.