In our conversation with Vladimir Safari, inspired by his new book Alphabet of collisions, we deal with the challenges and crises of the contemporary world and the tasks of a practical philosophy that matches it. We analyze the advance of the extreme right in Argentina and its possible meanings for Brazil and Latin America. We then put the left into question, reflecting on what universalist or identity struggles would be, on the role of dialectics in critical thinking on the periphery of capitalism and, finally, on how aesthetic experience can provide us with models or supports for struggles for social transformation.
Vladimir Safari He is a full professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo, a university at which he also teaches as a professor of psychology. He is the author of several books, such as The Passion of the Negative: Lacan and dialectics, Cynicism and Critical Failure, The left that is not afraid to say its name, The Circuit of Affects: political bodies, helplessness and the end of the individual, just one more effort, Giving body to the impossible: the meaning of dialectics from Theodor Adorno, At one with the momentum, and many others. Recently, published by UBU, he launched the book Alphabet of collisions: practical philosophy in chronic mode.
Published books by Vladimir Safatle
Alphabet of collisions: Practical philosophy in chronic mode – https://amzn.to/3PDSHxR
The circuit of affections: Political bodies, helplessness and the end of the individual – https://amzn.to/43eKyoV
Embodying the impossible: The meaning of dialectics from Theodor Adorno – https://amzn.to/3PitrNf
Ways of transforming worlds: Lacan, politics and emancipation – https://amzn.to/3V6nqqK
Cynicism and Failure of Criticism – https://amzn.to/3T8AGIR
Grand abyss hotel: Toward a reconstruction of recognition theory – https://amzn.to/3PbZLS4
Just one more effort: How did we get here or how the country of “pacts”, “conciliations”, “broad fronts” produced its own collapse – https://amzn.to/4a4HldO
Introduction to Jacques Lacan – https://amzn.to/3Tv9nd1
The passion of the negative: Lacan and dialectics – https://amzn.to/49MfoI5
The Left that Is Not Afraid to Say Its Name – https://amzn.to/43dPlXN
Neoliberalism as management of psychological suffering – https://amzn.to/3VdawqV
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