Celso Lafer

Celso Lafer ( born August 7, 1941 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian lawyer, author, professor of legal philosophy, two-time Brazilian Foreign Minister and former Minister of Economic Affairs.

Life

Celso Lafer, son of immigrants Abrahão Jacob Lafer, is of Jewish descent from Lithuania. He studied at the Faculty of Law, the Faculdade de Direito because Universidade de São Paulo ( FDUSP ), Law and received his PhD in 1970 in political science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (USA). In 1977 he was teaching in the subject entitles Public International Law and in 1988 full professor of philosophy of law at the FDUSP in São Paulo.

He has published on the political theorist Hannah Arendt and Norberto Bobbio, but also for Brazilian politics, for example, with an analysis of the planning processes and the political system at the time of the five-year plan 1956-1961 of the era Kubitschek. Under the reign of his uncle, Kubitschek was Horácio Lafer (1900-1965) Brazilian Foreign Minister.

Political career

Celso Lafer took over in 1992 for the Cabinet Fernando Collor de Mello in succeeding Francisco Rezek the Department of Foreign Affairs ( Ministro the Relações Exteriores ); his successor Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Under his reign, he was later 1995-1998 Brazilian ambassador to the United Nations, in 1999 the first Minister of State for Development, Industry and Economics ( Ministro de Estado do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio ) and Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2001 to 2002.

Honors

In addition to a variety of domestic and foreign Celso Lafer Merit was awarded the 1989 Prize for Literature Prêmio Jabuti.

He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC), the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, elected on 1 June 2004.

Celso Lafer, was admitted to the Academia Brasileira de Letras, the Brazilian Academy of Letters in Rio de Janeiro on 21 July 2006. He's in succession by Miguel Reale, the fifth owner of the named after Franklin Távora seat number 14 José Murilo de Carvalho addition he is one of the two Brazilians who are members of both academies.

Writings

• O Judeu em Gil Vicente. Conselho Estadual de Cultura, São Paulo 1963.
• The Planning Process and the Political System in Brazil. A study of Kubitschek 's target plan, 1956-1961. Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, Ithaca, NY In 1970. (Dissertation Series n ° 16, June/1970 ). Brazilian edition: JK eo Programas de Metas ( 1956-1961 ). Processo de Planejamento e sistema político no Brasil. Ed. FGV, Rio de Janeiro 2002.

• Spanish Edition: El problema de los valores en " Los Lusíadas ". Elementos para el estudio de la cultura del siglo XVI portuguesa. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1978.

So far none of his works has been translated into German. A Conference fee: Celso Lafer: The ratio Brazil - Germany under the new international context. In: Inventory and perspectives of German - Brazilian relations. TFM, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 115-120. ( Symposium of the Working Group ADLAF Brazil. 1).