Darcy Ribeiro, Civilisation and Nation

This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin American social thought in the twentieth century.

Autorentext

Adelia Miglievich-Ribeiro is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes), Brazil, working in the Postgraduate Programme in Social Sciences (PGCS). Researcher in social theories and the history of the Social Sciences, as well as in Latin American thought, with an emphasis on Darcy Ribeiro, she held the Darcy Ribeiro Chair (IPEA-CAPES). Currently, she is CNPq Productivity Researcher and composes the board of directors of the Brazilian Society of Sociology/SBS (2023-2025), as well as being a member of the founding board of the Darcy Ribeiro Foundation (FUNDAR).

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I - Darcy Ribeiro's Pathways

1. Darcy Ribeiro, the Brazilian

2. Darcy Ribeiro, the Latin American citizen

3. "Our destiny"

Part II - The Civilizational Process

4. Civilizations, totality and heterogeneity

5. Darcy Ribeiro's theory of history

Part III - The Americas, Latin America and Brazil

6. Rewriting the Americas' History

7. Does Latin America exist?

8. The Brazilian People: Integration and heterogeneity

Part IV - Promising dialogues and epistemological turns

9. Darcy Ribeiro, Class, Race, and Nation (Interfaces with Black Intellectuals)

10. Post(de)colonial Conversations

Conclusion