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About Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback is a specialist in German Idealism, contemporary philosophy, and aesthetics. Professor of philosophy at Södertörn University in Sweden, she is the translator of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time into Portuguese. She is also an author of ten books and numerous articles touching upon themes in phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, and political thought.
Latest Posts | By Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
What is happening now in Brazil? What is happening is the “It has already happened”
3 years ago

What is happening now in Brazil? What is happening is the “It has already happened”

September 7, 1822 is the date of Brazilian independence. Brazil became independent in a very particular suffering way, as every suffering struggle for independence suffers in its own way. Indeed, …
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Bolsonaro in Brazil: What Takes the Place of Meaning Today?
6 years ago

Bolsonaro in Brazil: What Takes the Place of Meaning Today?

Recent Brazilian elections staged anew for the world the spectacle of the deflation of meaning. Meaning deflates by means of a very quick circulation of meanings, rendered possible by social …
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Being without a People

Last year, watching the news about the arrival of Syrian refugees at the island of Lesbos, a strong image remained in my heart. It was the image of an Imam …
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Every Day, the End of the World
9 years ago

Every Day, the End of the World

For a long time now, we have been awaiting the end of the world. Indeed, the promise of the end of the world has been for quite a while the …
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