Foucault in Brazil: Dictatorship, Resistance, and Solidarity

Michel Foucault's cultural criticism influenced modern conceptions of knowledge and power, but his five trips to Brazil between 1965 and 1976 were less well known. In 1975, he delivered a manifesto at a student assembly in São Paulo, which caught the government's attention and became the focal point of the dictatorship's surveillance of Foucault. Marcelo Hoffman's book explores the production of public antagonism between Foucault and the dictatorship.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 06 February 2024
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Michel Foucault, a renowned philosopher, left an indelible mark on modern conceptions of knowledge and power through his cultural criticism. While his influence on these fields is widely acknowledged, fewer people are aware of his five trips to Brazil between 1965 and 1976. Despite a military coup in 1964 that installed a dictatorship, Foucault kept his opinions on the Brazilian government largely to himself until October 23, 1975. On that date, he delivered a manifesto at a student assembly in São Paulo, expressing his solidarity with students and professors protesting a wave of arrests and torture. This manifesto caught the government's attention and became the focal point of the dictatorship's surveillance of Foucault. Foucault in Brazil explores the production of public antagonism between the philosopher and the dictatorship through a meticulous consideration of each of his visits to Brazil. Marcelo Hoffman connects history, philosophy, and political theory to offer fresh perspectives on Foucault as a person and thinker, as well as on Brazil and authoritarianism.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780822948063