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The purpose of this article is to analyze some aspects of the intellectual and political activity of members of Brazilian legal elites in the First Republic (1889-1930) in the frameworks of the socalled liberal bacharelism. In the same period, the Criminal Anthropology or “New Penal School” intended to innovate in the field of both Law and Medicine. Therefore, some physicians and jurists who defended this “school” had intellectual and political projection. We present here the trajectory of the jurist Candido Motta. He was a member of the elites, professor of the Law School in São Paulo and became a politician, by projecting himself as an intellectual who defended the New Penal School.

Of the books with which the Social reformers of the Nineteenth Century sought to redeem the Working class, only Capital achieved the character of a consecrated work, even sacralized as the “Bible of the Proletariat”. It is a complex book, often more recognized (and revered) than read. To Read Capital, to translate it, to edit it, committed the most diverse strategies. The history of its editions in Spanish language is a true transatlantic saga, crossed by revolutions, wars, dictatorships and exiles. And, no less important, furrowed by quarrels around terms and concepts that were never merely “technical”, but transposed conflicting conceptions of how to understand the Political struggle and Human emancipation.

Books, being both economic and symbolic objects, are at the same time commodities and concentrates of meaning; this means that publishers too are two-sided figures, doomed to reconciling art and money, love of literature and the profit motive, through strategies situated somewhere between these two extremes, between cynical submissiveness to commercial considerations and heroic or mad indifference to financial dictates. This article combats the illusion that the visible « decision-making » spheres (publishers, referees, readers, person in charge of a series) are independent, and points to the economic and social factors determining publishing strategies. Multiple correlation analysis, applied to a study of 61 publishers of Frenchlanguage and translated literature published between July 1995 and July 1996, brings out the structure of the publishing field. On the basis of the total amount of capital assets, an opposition is found between the longstanding, major firms that cumulate capital of all sorts, economic, and commercial as well as symbolic, the paradigm of which is represented by Gallimard, and small, recent firms who are still in the initial accumulation phase, and are practically devoid of every kind of capital, although they do possess some symbolic capital in the form of the esteem and admiration they win from a handful of « discoverers », critics and avant-garde writers, enlightened bookshop owners and informed readers. The second factor differentiates publishing houses on the basis of the structure of their capital, which is to say according to the relative weight of their financial capital (as well as their commercial strength) and of their symbolic capital, derived from their recent past or from their present activity (as opposed to capital accumulated since their beginnings, measured by the rating). The third line of analysis distinguishes between those who publish few if any translations, and when they do, usually from rare, little-spoken languages, and those who, under constraint from the market, publish a great many translations, mostly from the English, which is to say a commercial literature tailored to sell.

Books, being both economic and symbolic objects, are at the same time commodities and concentrates of meaning; this means that publishers too are two-sided figures, doomed to reconciling art and money, love of literature and the profit motive, through strategies situated somewhere between these two extremes, between cynical submissiveness to commercial considerations and heroic or mad indifference to financial dictates. This article combats the illusion that the visible « decision-making » spheres (publishers, referees, readers, person in charge of a series) are independent, and points to the economic and social factors determining publishing strategies. Multiple correlation analysis, applied to a study of 61 publishers of Frenchlanguage and translated literature published between July 1995 and July 1996, brings out the structure of the publishing field. On the basis of the total amount of capital assets, an opposition is found between the longstanding, major firms that cumulate capital of all sorts, economic, and commercial as well as symbolic, the paradigm of which is represented by Gallimard, and small, recent firms who are still in the initial accumulation phase, and are practically devoid of every kind of capital, although they do possess some symbolic capital in the form of the esteem and admiration they win from a handful of « discoverers », critics and avant-garde writers, enlightened bookshop owners and informed readers. The second factor differentiates publishing houses on the basis of the structure of their capital, which is to say according to the relative weight of their financial capital (as well as their commercial strength) and of their symbolic capital, derived from their recent past or from their present activity (as opposed to capital accumulated since their beginnings, measured by the rating). The third line of analysis distinguishes between those who publish few if any translations, and when they do, usually from rare, little-spoken languages, and those who, under constraint from the market, publish a great many translations, mostly from the English, which is to say a commercial literature tailored to sell.

The article analyses the contentions by legitimacy between journalists and academics at the late 1980s, in Sao Paulo. Having as a heuristic resource the case of the “list of the unproductive,” the approach focuses on the conflicts centered on symbolic production, i.e., the unique view regarding the things of the world. Emphasis is given to the creation of a doxa which opposes the State to the market by Folha de S. Paulo journalists´. The conflict reveals aspects of the disputes in the cultural and power fields during redemocratization, because the State having a negative connotation and the market positive. It realizes that journalism was successful in the production and diffusion of a doxa for having a central role in this period, both in the formation of spaces for debate and in giving voice and launching agents formerly excluded from public life. It shows that Folha to modernize, through the action of journalists new arrival at the press, delegated to itself the function to form the public opinion (the audience). Producing a new type of knowledge that emerges through confrontation, it marks the newspaper as an active actor in the contemporary cultural field.

Since 2002, a market of reactions to PT’s presidential administrations has been established, through the conventional media merged with the ultra-contemporary and the social production of hybrid intellectuals: they are journalists-teachers and teachers- journalists. This article addresses the dynamics of the exchanges established among the agents in this market. The focus will be on Olavo de Carvalho; Demétrio Magnoli; Marco Antonio Villa; Reinaldo Azevedo; Luiz Felipe Pondé; Rodrigo Constantino; Leandro Karnal. The analysis will be developed in three movements: it will present the classifications, the frameworks and some demands that they have received from opponents, contractors and clients. In order to characterize the principle that generates its political and cultural positions, the article will then carry out the sociogenesis of space and agents resulting from the structuring of the national education and research system as well as the cultural industry since the 1970s . Finally, it will discuss the sociological framework adopted.

Brazil is considered as one of the countries with the most uneven wealth distribution in the contemporary world. However, no specific social critic of material resources’ assimetry emerges in the country. The paper discusses some hypotheses to explain this apparently illogical reality. It responds fundamentally based on path dependency for critical affirmation of cultural resources’ assimetry and links it to the urgency of the main political groups which arose with the redemocratization of 1985 and whose political dispute dynamic follows a cultural logic. The cultural dispute encompass the potentially economic questions, because it installs itself in a durable manner as a metaphor system, endowed with “symbolic hardness”.

Review of Book Psicanálise entre línguas, by Walter Carlos Costa, Pedro Heliodoro Tavares e Emiliano Brito de Rossi e publish in 2016/7 Letras.

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This text attempts to analyze the case Gonzales Lluy vs. Ecuador, of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, whose decision condemned the defendant State for the human rights violations of Talía Gabriela Gonzales Lluy due to HIV infection. The study takes into account, in particular, the issues of difference and vulnerability(ies), which stand out in this demand, delineating all the judgment that, after all, recognized the intersectional discrimination that was submitted to Talía. Based on a critical-reflective review of the themes and the use of hermeneutic phenomenology, this text intends to show that the case under discussion can be constituted, in due proportion, in an important precedent of the Inter-American Court in terms of economic, social, and culture.

This article is informed by sociological approaches to translation in order to discuss the prefaces and introductions in both English and Portuguese of Save me the Waltz, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's only novel, written and published in 1932. We first analyze the author's identity such as it was built in her original literary system – an identity that is mostly negative, cemented in Harry T. Moore's preface to the 1968 English edition. Then, we discuss the preface to the Brazilian translation published in the 1980s, considering the historical context surrounding the book's production. Our aim is to determine to what extent the Brazilian preface, written by Caio Fernando Abreu, differs from Moore's interpretation and the North-American criticism the novel received upon publication in the 1930s.

This paper discusses the theoretical principles of the method of “ascension from the abstract to concrete” as a process of concept formation and develops a learning approach based on it. The notion of a germ cell is expanded to the genetic model when it is considered the conceptual system of the academic discipline and its use for modelling of a phenomenon. The design of the activities started with the determination of the genetic model for the phases of the Moon, that is, the set of concepts and relations that supports the explanatory model of the phenomenon. From this model, we elaborated and organized a sequence of five activities for primary education in which each of them reduced and synthesized a specific conceptual relation of the model. The intervention was evaluated through written records of the students. We conclude that the proposed activity provided opportunities for students to mobilize concepts and construct scientifically adequate models. In addition, we conclude that the genetic model can be viewed as a tool for the organization of teaching activity and can be a tool for planning learning situations.

The present study is part of the sport psychology, seeking to understand the professional qualification and production in sport psychology in Amazonas. Were mapped possible productions, besides accredited courses in psychology and physical education and their respective curricular structures aiming to identify the insertion of thematic as a discipline and research groups with lines in this topic. In general, the results point to an unconfirmed scientific context and a significant offer of sport psychology subjects in the baccalaureate in the area. Of note is the recent growth of the monographs addressing the subject and the non-disclosure of the results of the research as a problem to be faced. It is suggested the creation of alternatives inserted in the academic context aiming to promote the dissemination of the productions, as well as the discussion on the field of sports psychology.

This work tested the influence of seed size and controlled-release fertilizer doses on the emergence and growth of Schizolobium parahyba seedlings. Seeds were classified into three class intervals based on seed length: small, medium and large. Sowing occurred in 120 cm3 tubes filled with commercial substrate and 3, 5 and 8 g.L-1 of controlled-release fertilizer. At 7 and 21 days of sowing, the emergence percentage and vigor of the seedlings was determined, respectively. Seedling growth time was 18 weeks after sowing. At the end, seedling quality parameters were measured. Small seeds had a lower emergence speed and emergence percentage, while seeds classified as medium and large did not differ significantly. If the S. parahyba seeds are classified, the fertilizer dose should be based on seed size. Otherwise, a dose of 5 g.L-1 will promote uniformity in size, with a potential loss in quality and growth of seedlings from larger seeds.

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Liffey Swim is a book of poems by the Irish writer Jessica Traynor (2015). It features characteristics to contemporary Irish literature, such as Irish identity and local culture related to other cultures. The Liffey Swim translation project takes into account Irishness alongside the theoretical and methodological reflections on translation of poetry through translation stages that  observed form and content. This article presents a two-step result from the translation process of one of the poems, Sin-eater. The poem depicts a death ritual in Ireland, one of the defining themes of Irish literature. The first stage comprises the result of a cultural and linguistic revision, while the second stage focused on the rhythm and other phonetic aspects, for the reconstruction of image and spirit.