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In this essay, it is a question of tackling Baudelaire’s topicality from his perception of notions of “modernity”, “progress” and “evil”. Indeed, in his definition of modernity, the poet engages in a dialectic in which eternity triumphs in art, the eternity of art. Now, too often this founding argument is retained in the relative part, which relates to the transient, to the fugitive. The idea that Baudelaire has of progress is inseparable from his sense of evil, a progress which is individual through the “diminution of original sin”, and not by material progress, that false progress celebrated in his time (and our days).

There is increasing debate about the “crisis of the judiciary”, although in modern societies this expression (independent from its concrete content) specifically designates the crises of liberal democratic justice, or, it could be said, the crises of the judiciary in liberal and democratic society. Thus, any discussion about the “crisis of the judiciary” appears to demand a contextual framing that helps to clarify the place occupied by the judicial branch in societies such as ours. This article seeks to elucidate this context, from the political and constitutional point of view. The perspective of the History of Political Thinking is considered the most useful, to the degree to which it points to the origin of the intellectual foundation not only of modern judicial power, but of modern society as a whole. In this article, John Locke and Montesquieu are presented as two essential authors because they have made an indelible contribution to this dual structure.

This is the translation of the Funeral eulogy that Théodore de Banville delivered at the burial of Baudelaire, published in L'Étendard, on Wednesday, 4 September 1867, p. 3. Banville notably highlights the novelty and place of the poetry of the author of the Flowers of Evil in the nineteenth century, especially in relation to Victor Hugo.

Adaptation of Charles Baudelaire's "To a passerby" poem for Comics, translated and adapted by Francisca Ysabelle SIlveira and illustrated by Paula Watzko.

Adaptation of Charles Baudelaire's "A Carcass" poem for Comics, translated and adapted by Francisca Ysabelle SIlveira and illustrated by Paula Watzko.

This article contextually discusses the category of gender from a liberal perspective. The six sections of the study provide a deep criticism of the social sciences from a less rigid perspective in the handling of dichotomous and exclusionary categories such as masculine-feminine, rational-emotional, private-public, liberal-community, to mention some of the central issues raised by the various debates about gender. A comparative methodology is used to analyze authors such as Kolberg, Gilligan, Rawls and others. One of the principal conclusions reached in this study is that traditional theoretical schemes, still in use, impede achieving broader consensuses and delay the resolution of practical problems such as, in the Peruvian case, those resulting from the translation of the discourse of equity into actions and concrete daily practices that provide citizens true access to justice.

In spite of the recent expansion and consolidation of Translation Studies as a scholarly field, there are few studies in this area concerned with indirect translation. Considering this gap, this text deals with the concept of indirect translation in three different translational contexts, aiming to reflect on and expand the traditional understanding of what may be considered an indirect literary translation.

This article offers a reflection on the participation of the Administration of Justice in the processes of formation and expansion of legal culture. In this sense, and based on the supposition that judges expand the legal culture through their judicial practices, it affirms that only an intellectual and moral reform, in the Gramscian sense of the concept, which comprehends all the people (including the operators of law) can produce a radically democratic transformation of this culture. It also maintains that many possibilities for the route indicated open from good, common legal sense, but also become indispensable to the internal democratization of the Judiciary and the external control of its jurisdictional activities.

The article will bring three theories developed by scholars in the “North” since the 1950s: on citizenship, on social movements and on Fraser’s and Honneth’s theory of recognition, in order to verify their heuristic validity in understanding contemporary social issues in Brasil. It will be shown that they are of great importance to analyse Brazilian public sphere since the redemocratization of the country. From a historical sociology it will be pointed out the changes that have been taking place in the normative arrangements in what concerns not only the emergence of social movements, but also the questioning of the persistent inequalities on race relations. It will be claimed that the concept of human rights is a powerful tool to achieve a new citizenship and that the theory of recognition represents an important conceptual frame of analysis for the understanding new social movements

The paper aims to (re) discuss in a larger framework the relations between Environmental History and environmental movement. For this, it’s necessary a critical analysis of the classic national historiography, in particular those authors (like Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado, Jr.) who most inspired late-20th-century and early-21th-century environmental historians. This lineage of thought identified as the “notion of the ecological wastefulness of colonial economy” has been challenged in recent years by some scholars who assume a more interactivist and anthropocentric position. We defend it is in these terms that Environmental History should renegotiate the dialogue with the various sorts of political-ecological activism.

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In cyberspace, social and cultural relations are reorganized, reformulating contexts, among which there is the artistic one. An example is poetry, because it is influenced by cyberculture, (dis) territorialized in the digital environment, becoming fluid in social media, such as Instagram. This context gives rise to instapoems and their respective instapoets, that promote the circularity of the poetry by means of its sharing in the social media. Considering these aspects, it is proposed a reflection on the digital social media Instagram as a (macro) textuality that can be linked to the process of authorship. For this analysis, we consider the Instagram of the instapoets João Doederlein and Ryane Leão, the hashtag #purpleart, and the theoretical contributions of Lévy (1996), Koch (2000), Santaella (2014) and Maingueneau (2016), for example. It was possible to perceive that Instagram is composed of different textualities that, together, form another, a bigger one, that is extended for the maintenance of the authorship, especially of the instapoets. Migrating to cyberspace, poetry finds its niche in algorithms and art raises its humanizing function.

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RIAL, Carmen (org.). O poder do lixo: abordagens antropológicas dos resíduos sólidos [The power of waste: anthropological approaches to solid waste]. Rio de Janeiro: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia, 2016. 432 p.

This article discusses ideology as a category in Marx’s thought, and the debate around the issue of “false consciousness.” The study is based on Marx’s formulations on alienation and fetishism of the commodity, which allows understanding the notion of ideology as a category. The article exposes an approximation of this issue with the current debate in the Marxist tradition, presenting contemporary authors who worked on the subject, explaining analytical controversies that imply in the question of whether ideology should be understood only in its negative sense, such as “false consciousness,” or also in a broader sense, considering the formulations of the field – which criticize the dominant ideology – as positively ideological, pointing to the overcoming of the capitalist mode of production. The result of this study highlights the importance of understanding ideology in its negative sense, considering the centrality of the dimension of “false consciousness,” as long as it is understood in a dialectical perspective, as an inverted consciousness of a society that presents itself in an inverted way.

This article discusses the relation between Marx and the emerging labor law. The study shows that Marx points out the limitations of the legal arena, at the same time as he considers it as a stage of class struggle. According to Marx, it is crucial to fight for the reduction of the working day, as well as for legal regulation. However, at best he sees such struggles as part of the preparation of the revolutionary terrain in order to suppress the capitalist society, the law, and the centrality of the productive activity in the life of the human in the bourgeois society. Therefore, when Marx advocates for a radical reduction of the working day, he is not referring to a struggle in the legal arena, but a substantive transformation of production.

This article questions and discusses the reasons the judiciary and the police offered in the court’s decision that instructed the removal of students from occupied schools in the Brazilian state of Paraná, considering the decision’s ideological nature. The processes were analyzed in the light of Marxist social theory and the approach of the political economy. The study used bibliographic research and documentary research procedures, resulting from the court’s decision for the removal of the students in favor of a request of the state’s government. The study pointed out that the acts of removing the students from the occupied schools in Paraná, guided by the decisions of specialists representing the bourgeois state, presented an inversion of the real situation. The courts’ decision used, to remove the students by force, the same arguments the high school students used to occupy the building: the right to education. That is, the judiciary and police apparatus transformed the students’ demonstrations and the struggle for the right to education into (dis)obedience and a matter of police force.

The present text intends to cover three important works by the philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas – De l’existence à l’existant, Le temps et l’autre, Totalité et infinit – in order to understand how the concept of feminine appear in his reflections and what meanings it assumes before the subject (understood by Lévinas as the masculine), the subjectivity and before the thought on ethics, considered by the philosopher as the first philosophy.

The commercialization of water expresses the aggravation of social inequalities in rural areas, increasing conflicts involving the possession, ownership, and use of water by the local population. This article discusses the conflicts over water conflicts in the Northeast of Brazil, considering the structural determinations around the issue: the expansion of agribusiness and its impacts on rural populations. The study conducts extensive bibliographic research, carried out during doctorate studies, in addition to the analysis of institutional documents around the theme. The intensification of water conflicts in the region is linked to the private appropriation of land, establishing the confrontation between classes and parts of the fundamental classes. On the one side is the agribusiness, and on the other riverine, quilombola, fishermen, indigenous, and small farmers, who establish their “social metabolism” (FOSTER, 2005) with close dependence on natural resources.

This article analyzes the Marxian theory of alienation in the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Grundrisse, and Volume I of Capital. The study assumes that the category of alienation acquires new determinations in Marx’s social theory, which are organically connected to the development of the capitalist mode of production and the consequent maturation of Marx’s critique of political economy. Such determinations materialize in the so-called “commodity fetishism,” the particular manifestation of alienation observed in the developed bourgeois sociability.