Florestan Fernandes’ Critical Sociology

Diogo Valença de Azevedo Costa is Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). His research interests are the sociology of knowledge, sociological theory, sociological thought in the Third World (specifically Latin America and Africa) and Marxism in Latin America. He has contributed as editor and author of chapters in the collective work Florestan Fernandes: trajetória, memórias e dilemas do Brasil (2021). Eliane Veras Soares is Full Professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). She is interested in the area of social thought in Brazil. She is the author of Florestan Fernandes, o militante solitário (1997) and co- editor of the book Florestan Fernandes: trajetória, memórias e dilemas do Brasil (2021).

Series Editor Forword by Adrian Scribano

Introduction

Part I: From the lumpen social environment to the University of São Paulo

1. The lumpen style of thought

2. The trajectory of Florestan Fernandes at the University of São Paulo (USP)

3. Sociology in Latin America or Latin American sociology?

Part II: The construction of Florestan Fernandes' critical sociology: from Brazilian "social dilemmas" to the category of "dependent capitalism" in Latin America

4. The construction of “critical and militant sociology”: from folklore to race relations

5. Sociology of development, sociological theory and education: the social sciences Latin Americanization in the 1950s and 1960s

6. The "committed sociology" and the Latin American intellectual networks of Florestan Fernandes: struggles around public education, underdevelopment and dependent capitalism

Part III: Brazil and Latin America in a socialist perspective: racial dilemma, dependent capitalism and bourgeois autocracy

7. The Latin American Marxism of Florestan Fernandes (1970-1995)

8. A new social theory of Brazil and Latin America: the lumpen perspective of Florestan Fernandes

By way of conclusion: the renaissance of critical and militant sociology