Um intelectual na política: Memórias

by Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Às vésperas de completar 90 anos, Fernando Henrique Cardoso revisita os marcos decisivos de seu itinerário intelectual. Nestas memórias intelectuais, Fernando Henrique Cardoso lança luz sobre sua formação, o percurso como sociólogo e os acontecimentos históricos e pessoais que o levaram, antes por contingência que por escolha, à política e finalmente ao Palácio do Planalto.
Tendo por inspiração as reminiscências de Joaquim Nabuco e Norberto Bobbio, o autor rememora suas relações com os pensadores, professores e colegas que mais influenciaram sua produção intelectual, revela bastidores da intelligentsia brasileira e internacional na segunda metade do século XX e recupera os processos históricos de que foi testemunha ou agente.
Suas experiências, marcadas pelo livre trânsito entre a política e a academia, são recontadas com novo enfoque, entre reflexões sobre o poder, a sociedade e o Estado, nas quais pensamento e ação se esclarecem mutuamente.

Genres: Politics

373 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 14, 2021

About the author

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, (born June 18, 1931) - also known by his initials FHC - was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2003. He is an accomplished sociologist, professor and politician.[1] He was awarded in 2000 with the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation.[2]

Born in Rio de Janeiro, he has lived in São Paulo most of his life. Cardoso is a widower (he was married to Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso until her death June 24, 2008) and has four children.[3] Educated as a sociologist, he was a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidade de São Paulo.[4] He was President of the International Sociological Association (ISA), from 1982 to 1986. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton),[5] an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has penned several books. He was also Associate Director of Studies in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and then visiting professor at the Collège de France and later at the Paris-Nanterre University.[6] He later lectured at United States' universities including Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.[6] He is fluent in four languages: Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.[6]

After his presidency, he was appointed to a five-year term (2003-2008) as professor-at-large at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, where he is now on the board of overseers. Cardoso is a founding member of the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy's Advisory Board.[citation needed] In February 2005, he gave the fourth annual Kissinger Lecture on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress, Washington DC on "Dependency and Development in Latin America.[7] In 2005, Cardoso was selected by the British magazine Prospect as being one of the world's top one hundred living intellectuals.

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Reviews

[JEAN-PHILIPPE PEROL · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilhante, agradável de ler, o livro do Fernando Henrique ajuda a entender os últimos 50 anos da politica brasileira. Lembra a ditadura militar, com a coragem de dizer que ela foi autoritária e as vezes violenta, mas nem totalitária nem fascista, conta anedotas interessantíssimas sobre a transição democrática e acaba com considerações fundamentais sobre as condições indispensáveis a sobrevivência da democracia frente a subida da extrema direita. Mesmo se algumas perguntas referente a sua ação ( como não consegui impedir a desastrosa constituição de 1988, porque não empurrou a reforma politica quando era Presidente ...) não encontram respostas, essas Memorias são dignas do grande Presidente que ela foi.

[Xenon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maravilhoso!