Magna Imoralia: criticism of uncritical criticism

The first essay in this book, “Post-64: the eyes of criticism”, is a survey of the positions of Brazilian critics on post-64 literary production. The critical review covers an interval from the sixties to the mid-nineties, when a new literary production is recognized in the country, the so-called “Geração 90”, which has already awakened some systematizations.
The essays in the “Dossiê Borges / Adorno” were prepared in parallel to another broader work, Borges after Auschwitz, which examines, in the light of Theodor Adorno's aesthetic categories, stories by Jorge Luis Borges that portray genocides in two moments of modernity: o the bourgeois expansion of the Grand Navigations and the cycle of world wars in the twentieth century.
The last series, “Minor Reflections”, initially covers two reviews about Noam Chomsky. They correspond to the contents explained in a mini-course offered in April and May 2011 at the Federal University of Paraíba: “Bakhtin and Chomsky: introduction to the philosophy of language”.
"The dirty hands of the proletariat" is a political manifesto on the global lethargy of the working class. It portrays some intuitions about the effective absence of antithesis to capitalism, as Adorno expresses in his negative Dialectic.
“Auto dos 100 million” is a short chronicle about extreme inequality in Brazil, highlighting the obsolescence of Brazilian legislation in two cases addressed.
“About oriented monographs” is a brief statement about the methodology used to guide students' monographic research in literature chairs.