Olavo de Carvalho

Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho ( born April 29, 1947 in Campinas, Brazil) is a Brazilian journalist and essayist, who represents right-wing positions, and conspiracy theories.

Life

Carvalho is the son of lawyer Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho and the housewife Nicea Pimentel de Carvalho. As a child he often fell ill and had to be as long feverish and weak lying in bed, that he had to relearn to walk the age of seven. He describes this period of his life as a period of discovery of the world of thought in which he had found hat to steady physical pain, and fainting.

By the early death of his father Olavo de Carvalho started working at the age of 15, since he was 18, he worked as a journalist. During the Brazilian military dictatorship he joined the Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB), one of the Communist parties in Brazil. But after a short time he came out again.

After that, Carvalho dedicated to his " self-discovery " and taught himself in comparative religion, philosophy, logic, symbolism and astrology, which is superior to his statement after a normal academic education. From 1980 until the mid- 1990s, he wrote several books on symbolism, religious and astrological themes.

Since the early 1990s Carvalho writes on political issues. He occupies a very anti -communist stance and writes, for example, for the right-wing John Birch Society, whose conspiracy he shares.

Olavo de Carvalho is widowed and remarried, he has a total of eight children. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia and works as an international correspondent for the Brazilian magazine " Diário do Comércio ".

Philosophical works

Olavo de Carvalho sees himself as a Christian philosopher. The motto of his work can be seen as " ... a rebellion against the primacy of the collective over the individual consciousness. " Are described. Accordingly, he distanced himself early from the Brazilian academic and university establishment and criticized it repeatedly in his books (for example, O imbecil Coletivo I and II, in free translation: The collective idiot I and II).

His philosophical work is mainly based on the philosophy of Aristotle and the Scholastics. His book " O Jardim das Aflições " ( The Garden of afflictions ) was very controversial in Brazil. Carvalho distanced himself from his opinion Marxist-inspired mainstream of modern Brazilian intellectual and practiced harsh criticism of currents of thought such as liberation theology, the cultural Marxism and deconstructionism.

Other activities

Olavo de Carvalho was editor of the first annotated edition of the entire work of art and social critic Otto Maria Carpeaux and the Brazilian philosopher Mário Ferreira dos Santos. In addition, he also published the first "History of the Brazilian armed forces ".

He is co-founder and president of the " Inter- American Institute for Philosophy, Government and Social Thought ", a think tank. He leads a weekly radio show on the Internet (True outs Peak) in Portuguese, in which he often speaks about U.S. and Brazilian politics. He represents this similar positions as the Tea Party movement and is a strong opponent of U.S. President Barack Obama and Brazil's former president Lula da Silva.

Bibliography

  • Os EUA e a nova ordem mundial. São Paulo: Vide editorial., 2012.
  • A filosofia e seu Inverso. São Paulo: Vide editorial. 2012
  • Maquiavel ou A Confusão Demoníaca. São Paulo: Vide editorial. 2011
  • A Dialética Simbólica - Ensaios Reunidos. São Paulo: É Realizações. 2006
  • O Futuro do Pensamento Brasileiro. Estudos sobre o Nosso Lugar no Mundo. , 1998
  • O imbecil Coletivo II: A longa marcha da vaca para o brejo e, logo atrás dela, os filhos da PUC, as quais obras juntas formam, para dos ensinança pequenos e escarmento dos grandes. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks. 1998
  • Como Vencer to Debate this Precisar Ter Razão. Comentários à " Dialética Erística " de Arthur Schopenhauer, 1997
  • O Imbecil Coletivo: Atualidades Inculturais Brasileiras. São Paulo: É Realizações, 1996
  • O Jardim das Aflições. De Epicuro à Ressurreição de César - Ensaio sobre o materialismo ea religião Civil. São Paulo: É Realizações, 1995
  • Aristóteles em Nova Perspectiva. Introdução à Teoria dos Quatro Discursos ( reedição aumentada de Uma Aristotélica Filosofia da Cultura ), 1994
  • A Nova Era ea Revolução Cultural: Fritjof Capra & Antonio Gramsci, 1994
  • O caráter como Forma Pura since Personalidade, 1993
  • Os Generos Literarios: Seus Fundamentos Metafísicos, 1993
  • Símbolos e Mitos no movies " O Silêncio dos Inocentes ", 1993
  • Fronteiras because Tradição. São Paulo, Nova Stella, 1986
  • Astrologia e religião. São Paulo, Nova Stella, 1986
  • Astros e Símbolos. São Paulo, Nova Stella, 1985
  • Universalidade e Abstração e outros Estudos. (São Paulo, Speculum ), 1983
  • Questões de simbolismo Astrológico. São Paulo, Speculum, 1983
  • O Crime da Madre Agnes ou: A Confusão entre Espiritualidade e Psiquismo. São Paulo, Speculum, 1983
  • A Imagem do Homem na Astrologia. Jvpiter. São Paulo, 1980
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