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The Opinion of the Critics
“With renowned competence in the philosophy field, he has reached great success both in his research and in his dealing with his pupils.” “He has already given definite proof of the seriousness of his objectives and of his vast philosophical culture. Any effort that comes from him is worthy of support and can only add prestige to whoever gives it.” “Indifferent to the academic elites and to the world of cultural show business, Olavo de Carvalho chose a completely intellectual life as his ambition and daily life.” “An independent intellectual, not affiliated to any political or philosophical group; owner of vast culture, supported by his knowledge of philosophy.” “He has the brightness and the courage of the Inconfidents.”1 “I admire Olavo de Carvalho not only for the high value of his intellectual works, which include important books about Aristotelic philosophy, about the relationship between Epicure and Marx and about the ‘cultural revolution’ caused by Gramsci, but also for the polemic energy with which he is facing what he classifies as ‘incultural facts in Brazil’.” “A philosopher of great erudition” “A philosopher, not simply a philosophy lecturer.” “Amazing. His work has the breath of an epopee of the word, a word fearlessly lucid and generously insurgent, rebellious and just, brave and precise.” “The most brilliant and controversial Brazilian philosopher.” About New Age and Cultural Revolution “I praise the courage and lucidity of his ideas and the admirable way with which they are exposed.” “The essay not only is excelent, but it comes at the right time.” “A living being. Magnificent. Enlightening. It has the vibration of ethical courage. Certainly one of the most important documents ever made in Brazil.” About Symbols and Myths in the Movie: “Silence of the Lambs” “Fascinating analysis and – I dare say – definitive.” About Aristotle in New Perspective “Olavo de Carvalho goes to the philosophers who made the Western tradition of thought, giving the young reader the opportunity of going through these classics.” “In his works like in the courses he lectures, balance and coherence predominate.” About The Garden of Afflictions “Few books have I read with the same interest and benefit as The Garden of Afflictions” “Inexhaustable erudition and unbeatable intellectual honesty... the dawn of a postponed and feared resurrection of the nation’s critical and philosophical independence.” “A wonderful book, a lightening flash in the darkness.” “If the work of Olavo de Carvalho is distinguished from the showy and empty prose of the philosophes on duty, it is due to his living and good humoured text, to his generous erudition and to the permanent search for clarity and intellectual honesty.” “Olavo de Carvalho is even an iconoclast, of an iconaclasty that was made necessary... He goes in the front line of courage, having large and deep erudition, as can be proved by his philosophical texts of a widely Hellenic basis, Literary Genres, An Aristotelic Philosophy of Culture, brief, concise, conceptually rigorous, with refined logical methodology backing the polemical heat which, in this way, does not harm him.” About The Collective Imbecile: Incultural Facts in Brazil “A can’t-miss-it book. Demand it from the bookstores.” “Lucid and eloquent as Irving Kristol.” “Like Jackson de Figueiredo, like Gustavo Corção, Olavo de Carvalho sees imbecility as a moral mistake. He has a philosophical and universal vision of this problem.” “An intelligence like few among us.” “Fearsome intelligence and unbeatable philosophical skill” “Olavo de Carvalho re-establishes a tradition that was in a scary decline: the tradition of severe and bold criticism, which demythizes false values, hygienizing intellectual life.” About the Conference “Les Plus Exclus des Exclus”2 “Fascinating.” NOTES:
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