Philosophy, work and social movements

Abstract

In the first section, Interview, the reader will have an encounter with an interview with Virgínia Fontes. Virginia, intellectual and communist activist, is a Historian, with a master's degree from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (1985) and a doctorate in Philosophy from the Université de Paris X, Nanterre (1992). She works in the Postgraduate Course in History at UFF, where she is part of the NIEP-MARX – Interdisciplinary Center for Studies and Research on Marx and Marxism, and at the Joaquim Venâncio-Fiocruz Polytechnic School, integrating the research group on epistemology. She has a solid trajectory as a researcher, dedicating herself to topics such as Imperialism and Democracy. She published important books in the area, such as: Relexões Impertinentes (Ed. Bom Texto, 2005); and, Brazil and Capital- imperialism: theory and history (Ed. UFRJ, 2010), in addition to dozens of articles and book chapters. Throughout the interview, Virgínia Fontes addresses topics such as her political-intellectual trajectory; presents its influences within Marxism, as well as Brazilian intellectuals; it dialogues with the classic interpretations of historiography on the development of the historical process in Brazil; offers his interpretation of Brazilian autocracy and the debate on deindustrialization and reprimarization of the economy; and ends with a beautiful reflection on what it means to be a communist. In the Dossier Section, there are articles that discuss classic themes of philosophy, organized in the following order: A) The Truth in Hegel and Marx, by Pedro Novelli – Assistant Professor of the Department of Philosoy of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences, UNESP from Marília; B) The Nature of War and International Relations in Jean Jacques-Rousseau, authored by Marcelo Lira Silva – PhD candidate in the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences, UNESP, Marília; Master's degree (2005); Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences (2007) and Philosophy (2012) from the same faculty; C) The Freudian Legacy in the Dialectic of Enlightenment: the importance of memory on the ontogenetic and ilgenetic planes, authored by Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro – Master's student from the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (2012) and degree in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Education (2012); D) From the Common Good of the Platonic-Aristotelian Vision to the Hobbesian Logic of the Social Contract (From the Mechanical Order of Matter to the Final Order of the Will), by Luiz Carlos Mariano da Rosa – Postgraduate in Philosophy from Gama Filho University (2013) and Undergraduate in Philosophy from the Claretiano Center of Batatais-SP (2011). The Miscellaneous Section, whose objective is to publish articles on a variety of topics, covering various phenomena in the Human Sciences, is organized as follows: A) Small Criticism of a Great Loss: totality and social class against cultural reductionism in the EZLN analyses, under the authorship by Diego Marques Pereira dos Anjos – Master's student of the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences, UNESP, Marília, Degree in History at PUC – Goiás (2012); B) Work in Industrial Society: a brief understanding of the rationalization of the capitalist mode of production, by Guilherme Sávio Marchi – Graduated in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André; C) An Analysis of the Current Concept of Citizenship, by Luana Maria de Andrade and Simone da Conceição Silva – both Master's Students of the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at the Faculty of Philosoia and Sciences, UNESP, Marília; D) Right to Non-Work for Children and Adolescents as a Prerequisite for Mental and Physical Development, by Marcela Andressa Semeghini Pereira – Master's student in Law at the University of Marília, and Lourival José de Oliveira – Doctorate in Law at PUC (1999), Professor Adjunct at the State University of Londrina, and professor at the faculties UNOPAR, FACCAR and UNIMAR; E) The Management of Archival Documentary Heritage in Public Institutions: considerations on an effective inspection, whose authorship is shared by Aline Elis Arboit – PhD student in Information Science at UNESP, Marília, Master (2010) and Graduate in Information Management (2001) and Library Science (2003), both from the Federal University of Paraná, and Rúbia Martins – PhD student in Information Science at UNESP, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences, UNESP, Marília. The Special Section is dedicated to the article Two Criticisms of Modern Domination: Giorgio Agamben and Domenico Losurdo, written by Angelita Matos Souza, who has a Master's degree in Political Science from the State University of Campinas (1995) and a PhD in Applied Economics (2003) from the same university. She is a professor of Sociology and Economic History at the Department of Territorial Planning and Geoprocessing at the Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences from UNESP, Rio Claro. He also published two books: God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun: State and economy in Brazil, (Annablume, 2009) and State and Dependency in Brazil, (Annablume, 2001). Finally, we present an Authorial Essay by photographer Paula Mello, a philosopher graduated from Unesp in Marília, where she currently resides. She has held more than 40 exhibitions throughout the interior of São Paulo and teaches photography courses and workshops.