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Speaker:
Marcelo Jasmin, Professor, Department of History at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro(PUC-Rio) and Graduate Program in Political Science at Instituto Universitário de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ).

Professor Jasmin holds a BA in History from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Instituto Universitário de Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). He works on the history of political thought and philosophy of history. His academic publications include Alexis de Tocqueville: a Historiografia como Ciência da Política (1997); Racionalidade e História na Teoria Política (1998); Modernas tradições. Percursos da Cultura Ocidental (2002) with B. Cavalcante, J. Kamita, and S. Patuzzi; História dos Conceitos: Debates e Perspectivas (2006) with J. Feres. His recent articles examine theoretical relationships between history, political interpretation and action. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Department Iberian and Latin American Cultures at °®åú´«Ã½ University.

Abstract:
In this talk, Professor Jasmin will address the non-representational aspects of basic concepts, such as history or capitalism, and the ways in which traditions of modern thought could find rational foundation of political action in history understood as a directional oriented process. He will examine twentieth-century authoritarian interpretations of Brazilian history that provided the political language which justified the creation of the Estado Novo.