Region Western Philosophy Name Jose Merquior | Role Diplomat Schools of thought Liberalism | |
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Main interests Literary criticism, History of ideas, Aesthetics, Politics, Sociology, International relations Died January 7, 1991, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Books De Anchieta a Euclides Influenced by Karl Marx, Claude Levi-Strauss, Walter Benjamin Similar People Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Claude Levi‑Strauss, Raymond Aron, Ernest Gellner | ||
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José Guilherme Merquior (April 22, 1941 – January 7, 1991) was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher.
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- Biography
- Books by Merquior
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Biography
He was a prolific writer, and member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (the Brazilian Academy of Letters). He had a doctorate in sociology from the London School of Economics, which was directed by Ernest Gellner. Merquior also studied under Claude Lévi-Strauss (whose ideas Merquior would largely repudiate in From Prague to Paris), and took guidance from the likes of Raymond Aron, Harry Levin, and Arnaldo Momigliano. He published books written directly in French, English, Italian, and his native Portuguese.
Merquior divided his published works in two segments. In one the bulk was criticism per se; in the other the emphasis was the history of ideas, or more specific investigations like the highly esteemed study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Max Weber. Two of his books, Foucault (1985), an often scathing critique of Michel Foucault for the Fontana Modern Masters series, and Western Marxism (1986), were described as "minor classics" by scholar Gregory R. Johnson.
Merquior was a major supporter of the Fernando Collor de Mello government and wrote many of Collor's public speeches. He died of cancer in January 1991, before Collor's downfall in 1992.
Books by Merquior
Published in Portuguese
