Book, Conformism and resistance[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. As we all know, Marilena Chaui is a philosopher, and one of the greatest in the country. What not everyone knows is that throughout her career she was never content with keeping philosophy in the pantheon of the search for universal and disinterested truth. On the contrary. Following much of the teaching of 20th century philosophy, his work maintained an intense dialogue with what the Frenchman Maurice Merleau-Ponty called “non-philosophy”, that is, everything that is not primarily philosophy can provide content to the philosopher and inspire him. thought.This volume presents a paradigmatic case of the rich dialogue carried out by Marilena's work with Brazilian social sciences based on a fundamental question: what is popular culture and what specific form does it take in our country? The highest point of this incursion was Conformism and resistance. Aspects of popular culture in Brazil, republished here along with various essays, testimonials, conferences and newspaper articles produced in the 1970s and 1980s. Altogether, the material, especially revised for this edition, reconstitutes an in-depth investigation in which the philosopher strives to grasp the originality of popular culture as a particular logic or knowledge, which, at the same time as it adheres to the status quo and reproduces the authoritarianism of the elites, is also capable of opposing the system and expresses its own desire for freedom of the popular classes. For the first time, these texts appear together in a single volume, which allows readers to discover (or rediscover in all its scope) how much the work of philosopher Marilena Chaui was able to propose an original interpretation of one of the most important aspects of Brazilian society: its popular culture, as it presents itself with its peculiarities.