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Theresa Calvet

UFMG - The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Philosophy, Retired (Professor) and Collaborator Professor Law Graduate School

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Post-doctoral study in Contemporary Philosophy at the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (CAPES Scholarship), 1983-1984.
Ph.D. ["Docteur"] in Political and Social Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 1977 [PhD Dissertation on Peirce: Signe ou Symbole: Introduction à la Théorie Sémiotique de C. S. Peirce; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jean Ladrière; jury members: Prof. Dr. Salvador Garcia Bardon, Prof. Dr. Enrico Carontini, Prof. Dr. André Berten, Prof. Dr. Pascale Frognier-Delfosse and Prof. Dr. Jacques Rémy (jury president)]. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship, 1972-1974.
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) / CAPES Short-Term Research Scholarship at the Hannah Arendt Zentrum of Carl von Ossietzky University, in Oldenburg, Germany (December 2001-March 2002).
[Undergraduate studies in Political and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain, in Leuven (Belgium): "Candidature" [B. A.], Université Catholique de Louvain 1968. Graduate studies in Political and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain, in Leuven (Belgium): "Licence" [M. A] with High Distinction in Social Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Leuven (Belgium), 1971 [Master's thesis on the work of Julia Kristeva: 'Sociologie de la littérature', 'Sémiologie', Sémanalyse: Introduction au Texte et sa Science; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jean Ladrière].
Teaching experience in Philosophy and Linguistics (1977-2003): Undergraduate courses (Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Fundamentals of the Social Sciences, History of Contemporary Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Topics in Political Philosophy, Topics in Modern Philosophy, History of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, History of Mediaeval Philosophy); Graduate courses (Semiotics and Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Generative Transformational Grammar, Semantics of English, Principles of General Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Hume and Empiricism, Philosophical Approach to the Work of Freud, Cultural Anthropology, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Political Philosophy, Ontology, Political Theory and Analysis, German Idealism, Topics in Social and Political Philosophy).
Retired Professor since August 2003 (Department of Philosophy, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte).
Collaborator Professor Law Graduate School (Federal University of Minas Gerais) April 2016 - August 2022.
CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6821192429618595 [Home Address: Caixa Postal 930/ 30161-970 Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais / Brasil].

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Papers and translations by Theresa Calvet

Digital transcription of a 1946 manuscript: Remembering my grandfather - a homage

Transcrição digitalizada (mantendo a ortografia original) de um manuscrito do meu avô com a trad... more

Portuguese translation of L. Hetzel, “La Dialectique Matérialiste dans Le Capital. Quelques pistes pour rouvrir un vieux chantier”

by Theresa Calvet and Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira

Annex: in Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira, Contribuições para uma Teoria Crítica da Constitui... more

Calvet - De la théorie figurale du Tractacus Logico-philosophicus au langage comme praxis sociale (Portuguese version)

Da linguagem como figura da realidade no Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1918] à linguagem como p... more Da linguagem como figura da realidade no Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1918] à linguagem como práxis social na obra Philosophische Untersuchungen [1949] [De la théorie figurale du Tractacus Logico-philosophicus au langage comme praxis sociale]. Pour remercier la solidarité de Marc Maesschalck, et son accueil très généreux trente six ans plus tard,

Derrida on the Death Penalty

Reading Derrida’s 1999-2000 Death Penalty Seminar, this paper presents a very brief discussion (w... more Reading Derrida’s 1999-2000 Death Penalty Seminar, this paper presents a very brief discussion (with long quotations) of how Derrida juxtaposes Kant’s defense of the death penalty with Victor Hugo’s vote for the pure, simple and definite abolition of the death penalty. If one wants to ask what is the death penalty, one has to reconstitute the history of sovereignty as the hyphen in the expression “theologico-political”, and try to think the theologico-political in its possibility beginning from the death penalty. Deconstruction is thus perhaps, perhaps insists Derrida in this seminar, the deconstruction of the death penalty.
Published in Human Rights, Rule of Law and the Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies:
Proceedings of the XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy of the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. Marcelo Galuppo, Mônica Sette Lopes, Lucas de Alvarenga Gontijo, Karine Salgado and Thomas Bustamante (eds.). Belo Horizonte/MG: Initia Via, 2015 (E-book), pp. 1013-1029.

The concept of recognition in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Labarrière reading Hegel (Portuguese version)

My aim in this paper is to reconstruct Labarrière’s reading of the concept of recognition and th... more

Imputability, Responsability, Recognition: Ricoeur's political anti-Hegelianism (Portuguese version)

RESUME: Trois intentions philosophiques ont présidé à l’élaboration de l’ensemble des dix études ... more RESUME: Trois intentions philosophiques ont présidé à l’élaboration de l’ensemble des dix études qui composent Soi-même comme un autre, publié en 1990. La neuvième étude sur laquelle s’achève le cycle phénoménologique-herméneutique de cet ouvrage, comporte comme conclusion une brève relecture du parcours effectué jusque-là. Ricoeur y montre que les trois problématiques fondamentales enoncées au début de la préface du livre se laissent chacune rapporter à un terme emblématique emprunté à la philosophie morale ancienne et moderne, terme que l’herméneutique du soi permet peut-être d’enrichir et de préciser. Dans son Interlude, au début de la neuvième étude, Ricoeur annonce encore une fois sa décision de “renoncer à Hegel”. Il s’agit donc d’expliciter, dans son oeuvre Soi-même comme un autre, l’anti-hégélianisme politique de Ricoeur

Portuguese translation of J.-F. KERVÉGAN - Figures du Droit dans la Phénoménologie de l'Esprit (original version)

by Theresa Calvet and Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira

Pour Kervégan, il serait vain de chercher à établir entre «configurations» phénoménologiques et s... more Pour Kervégan, il serait vain de chercher à établir entre «configurations» phénoménologiques et séquences encyclopédiques une correspondance terme à terme. Mais il est légitime d’analyser celles-là comme des projections ou comme des diffractions de celles-ci. Et c’est dans une telle perspective qu’il est question, dans ce texte publié en 2007, des «figures du droit» dans la Phénoménologie de l’Esprit.

From Analytic Philosophy to Political Philosophy: Rawls's Political Liberalism (Portuguese revised version)

A revised version of the conclusion ("From Analytic Philosophy to Political Philosophy") of my b... more

The Idea of Political Liberalism in J. Rawls: A Political Conception of Justice (Portuguese version)

Como é possível que exista e mantenha-se ao longo do tempo uma sociedade democrática estável e ju... more Como é possível que exista e mantenha-se ao longo do tempo uma sociedade democrática estável e justa [grifos nossos], composta por cidadãos livres e iguais, que permanecem profundamente divididos entre si por doutrinas [grifo nosso] religiosas, filosóficas e morais razoáveis [grifo nosso], incompatíveis entre si?" 1 Segundo Rawls, esta

On the Employments of Practical Reason: Habermas and Kant (Portuguese revised version)

Revised version of my paper “Dos Usos da Razão Prática: Habermas e Kant [On the Employments of Pr... more Revised version of my paper “Dos Usos da Razão Prática: Habermas e Kant [On the Employments of Practical Reason: Habermas and Kant”], published as a Preface in MELLO, Cleyson de Moraes; MOREIRA, Thiago. Direitos Fundamentais e Dignidade da Pessoa Humana. Rio de Janeiro: Freitas Bastos, 2015 (pp. IX-XXIV).

The General Problem of Pure Reason - Rereading Kant [Portuguese version]

The Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), at least by Kant’s own reckoning, is an extended reflection on... more The Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), at least by Kant’s own reckoning, is an extended reflection on a single question: “Now the real problem of pure reason is contained in the question: how are synthetic a priori judgements possible?” (CPR B19). The question “how is synthetic a priori cognition possible? ” is the transcendental question. Kant’s famous 1772 letter to Marcus Herz –a letter this paper aims to explicate– already contains an outline of the first Critique and is quite important if we want to understand the genesis of the transcendental question. For Kant, transcendental philosophy, “which necessarily precedes all metaphysics”, is nothing but the complete solution, “in systematical order and completeness”, of the problem of pure reason, and he can then say that “it is not surprising that when a whole science (...), in itself quite new, is required to answer a –single question satisfactorily, we should find the answer troublesome and difficult, nay even shrouded in obscurity.” (Prolegomena, § 5, Ak IV, p. 279).
This paper was published, in November 2017, in Direito & Práxis ( Rio de Janeiro), Vol. 08, N. 3, pp. 2173-2198.

The two paths of freedom in Kant: Ricoeur as a reader of Kant (Portuguese version)

This paper aims to elucidate how Kant conceives freedom as “absolute spontaneity” or “absolute se... more This paper aims to elucidate how Kant conceives freedom as “absolute spontaneity” or “absolute self-activity [absolute Selbsttätigkeit]” and as “self-determination [Selbstbestimmung]”, by making reference to the two paths of freedom in his work – freedom as a kind of causality in the world (freedom in the cosmological sense, or transcendental freedom) and freedom as the exclusive privilege of man as a rational being (freedom in the practical sense, or practical freedom).

Ricoeur on Justice (Portuguese version)

Revista Interdisciplinar de Direito da Faculdade de Direito de Valença, 2012

Résumé: Du lieu philosophique du juste à la pratique de la justice (à la pratique judiciaire), ca... more Résumé: Du lieu philosophique du juste à la pratique de la justice (à la pratique judiciaire), caractérisée par les occasions (les circonstances ) de la justice (c'est-à-dire les situations auxquelles le droit donne la forme du procès), par les voies et moyens de la justice (les canaux au plan institutionnel, c'est-à dire l'appareil judiciaire lui-même comprenant non seulement un corps de lois écrites, mais aussi des tribunaux ou des cours de justice, investis de la fonction de dire le droit, des juges, c'est-à-dire des individus réputés indépendants et chargés de prononcer la sentence juste dans une circonstance particulière, et le monopole de la coercition, autrement dit, le pouvoir d'imposer une décision de la justice par l'emploi de la force publique), et par les arguments au niveau du discours de la justice: voici le parcours de cet exposé.

Time and Narrative - Ricoeur's Poetics of Narrative (Portuguese revised version)

Résumé - Présentation très courte des trois volumes de l'oeuvre Temps et Récit (1983-1985) de Pau... more Résumé - Présentation très courte des trois volumes de l'oeuvre Temps et Récit (1983-1985) de Paul Ricoeur. La composition narrative constitue une riposte au caractère aporétique de la spéculation sur le temps et il s'agit d'expliciter la pertinence de cette réplique du récit aux apories du temps.

The process of the trial and the sanction: declaring the law and the failure of justice [Portuguese version]

Résumé: Dans toutes les subdivisions du droit – pénal, civil, social, international –, la deman... more Résumé: Dans toutes les subdivisions du droit – pénal, civil, social, international –, la demande de justice surgit dans des situations de conflit (les circonstances, ou occasions, de la justice) auxquelles le droit donne la forme du procès. C’est donc dans la structure même du procès, disait Ricoeur, tel qu’il se déroule (ou tel qu’il devrait se dérouler) dans un État de droit, qu’il faut chercher le principe de la coupure entre vengance et justice. Avant de décomposer le procès en ses élémentts structuraux, Ricoeur le caractérise globalement en ces termes: “il consiste à établir une juste distance entre le forfait qui déclenche la colère privée et publique, et la punition infligée par l’institution judiciaire” . En qualifiant comme sentence l’acte terminal du procès, on n’a pas encore dit l’essentiel concernant la sanction. La sentence clôt le procès et assigne aux parties elles-mêmes les places qui déterminent la juste distance entre vengance et justice. Commence alors une autre histoire pour le coupable condamné, qui n’est plus celle du procès , mais celle de la sanction (ou de l’éxécution de la peine). Sa justification constitue, pour Ricoeur, le point aveugle (et aussi scandale intellectuel) de tout le système judiciaire.

Philosophy, Violence and Action in Eric Weil (Portuguese revised version)

A minor text on Eric Weil.

Violence and/or Politics - Reading Foucault (Portuguese version)

Poder, normalização e violência: Incursões foucaultianas para a atualidade, 2008

A questão da guerra como princípio eventual de análise das relações de poder, a questão do nascim... more A questão da guerra como princípio eventual de análise das relações de poder, a questão do nascimento do discurso histórico-político da luta das raças (nos séculos XVI e XVII) e a do aparecimento do racismo de Estado (no início do século XX), assim como a questão de duas novas tecnologias de poder, a disciplina ou o poder disciplinar e a biopolítica (a partir do século XVII, início do século XVIII, e por volta da segunda metade do século XVIII, início do século XIX), de sua especificidade e de sua articulação, são questões centrais no curso "Il faut défendre la société" que Foucault apresentou no Collège de France de 7 de janeiro a 17 de março de 1976, ou seja, entre a publicação de Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la prison (fevereiro de 1975) e a publicação de La volonté de savoir, o primeiro volume de sua Histoire de la Sexualité (outubro de 1976), um curso que foi finalmente publicado no início de 1997 (em fevereiro). 1

Power, War, and Violence. A mere outline for a de-re-construction of politics (Portuguese version)

Publicado primeiramente, em Belo Horizonte, in Constituição e Processo. A resposta do constitucio... more

Philosophy as Discourse of Modernity (Portuguese version)

Foucault's location of his own theoretical trajectory as a form of reflection which runs from “He... more Foucault's location of his own theoretical trajectory as a form of reflection which runs from “Hegel through Nietzsche or Max Weber, to Horkheimer or Habermas” supporting the philosophical question of the Enlightenment provides an entry into his work. The aim of this now old paper is to identify and situate the philosophical ethos which exhibits itself in Michel Foucault's work

Foucault on the Birth of the Asylum as a Sign of Exclusion (Portuguese version)

A very minor text published in 2003.

Digital transcription of a 1946 manuscript: Remembering my grandfather - a homage

Transcrição digitalizada (mantendo a ortografia original) de um manuscrito do meu avô com a trad... more

Portuguese translation of L. Hetzel, “La Dialectique Matérialiste dans Le Capital. Quelques pistes pour rouvrir un vieux chantier”

by Theresa Calvet and Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira

Annex: in Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira, Contribuições para uma Teoria Crítica da Constitui... more

Calvet - De la théorie figurale du Tractacus Logico-philosophicus au langage comme praxis sociale (Portuguese version)

Da linguagem como figura da realidade no Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1918] à linguagem como p... more Da linguagem como figura da realidade no Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1918] à linguagem como práxis social na obra Philosophische Untersuchungen [1949] [De la théorie figurale du Tractacus Logico-philosophicus au langage comme praxis sociale]. Pour remercier la solidarité de Marc Maesschalck, et son accueil très généreux trente six ans plus tard,

Derrida on the Death Penalty

Reading Derrida’s 1999-2000 Death Penalty Seminar, this paper presents a very brief discussion (w... more Reading Derrida’s 1999-2000 Death Penalty Seminar, this paper presents a very brief discussion (with long quotations) of how Derrida juxtaposes Kant’s defense of the death penalty with Victor Hugo’s vote for the pure, simple and definite abolition of the death penalty. If one wants to ask what is the death penalty, one has to reconstitute the history of sovereignty as the hyphen in the expression “theologico-political”, and try to think the theologico-political in its possibility beginning from the death penalty. Deconstruction is thus perhaps, perhaps insists Derrida in this seminar, the deconstruction of the death penalty.
Published in Human Rights, Rule of Law and the Contemporary Social Challenges in Complex Societies:
Proceedings of the XXVI World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy of the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. Marcelo Galuppo, Mônica Sette Lopes, Lucas de Alvarenga Gontijo, Karine Salgado and Thomas Bustamante (eds.). Belo Horizonte/MG: Initia Via, 2015 (E-book), pp. 1013-1029.

The concept of recognition in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Labarrière reading Hegel (Portuguese version)

My aim in this paper is to reconstruct Labarrière’s reading of the concept of recognition and th... more

Imputability, Responsability, Recognition: Ricoeur's political anti-Hegelianism (Portuguese version)

RESUME: Trois intentions philosophiques ont présidé à l’élaboration de l’ensemble des dix études ... more RESUME: Trois intentions philosophiques ont présidé à l’élaboration de l’ensemble des dix études qui composent Soi-même comme un autre, publié en 1990. La neuvième étude sur laquelle s’achève le cycle phénoménologique-herméneutique de cet ouvrage, comporte comme conclusion une brève relecture du parcours effectué jusque-là. Ricoeur y montre que les trois problématiques fondamentales enoncées au début de la préface du livre se laissent chacune rapporter à un terme emblématique emprunté à la philosophie morale ancienne et moderne, terme que l’herméneutique du soi permet peut-être d’enrichir et de préciser. Dans son Interlude, au début de la neuvième étude, Ricoeur annonce encore une fois sa décision de “renoncer à Hegel”. Il s’agit donc d’expliciter, dans son oeuvre Soi-même comme un autre, l’anti-hégélianisme politique de Ricoeur

Portuguese translation of J.-F. KERVÉGAN - Figures du Droit dans la Phénoménologie de l'Esprit (original version)

by Theresa Calvet and Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira

Pour Kervégan, il serait vain de chercher à établir entre «configurations» phénoménologiques et s... more Pour Kervégan, il serait vain de chercher à établir entre «configurations» phénoménologiques et séquences encyclopédiques une correspondance terme à terme. Mais il est légitime d’analyser celles-là comme des projections ou comme des diffractions de celles-ci. Et c’est dans une telle perspective qu’il est question, dans ce texte publié en 2007, des «figures du droit» dans la Phénoménologie de l’Esprit.

From Analytic Philosophy to Political Philosophy: Rawls's Political Liberalism (Portuguese revised version)

A revised version of the conclusion ("From Analytic Philosophy to Political Philosophy") of my b... more

The Idea of Political Liberalism in J. Rawls: A Political Conception of Justice (Portuguese version)

Como é possível que exista e mantenha-se ao longo do tempo uma sociedade democrática estável e ju... more Como é possível que exista e mantenha-se ao longo do tempo uma sociedade democrática estável e justa [grifos nossos], composta por cidadãos livres e iguais, que permanecem profundamente divididos entre si por doutrinas [grifo nosso] religiosas, filosóficas e morais razoáveis [grifo nosso], incompatíveis entre si?" 1 Segundo Rawls, esta

On the Employments of Practical Reason: Habermas and Kant (Portuguese revised version)

Revised version of my paper “Dos Usos da Razão Prática: Habermas e Kant [On the Employments of Pr... more Revised version of my paper “Dos Usos da Razão Prática: Habermas e Kant [On the Employments of Practical Reason: Habermas and Kant”], published as a Preface in MELLO, Cleyson de Moraes; MOREIRA, Thiago. Direitos Fundamentais e Dignidade da Pessoa Humana. Rio de Janeiro: Freitas Bastos, 2015 (pp. IX-XXIV).

The General Problem of Pure Reason - Rereading Kant [Portuguese version]

The Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), at least by Kant’s own reckoning, is an extended reflection on... more The Critique of Pure Reason (CPR), at least by Kant’s own reckoning, is an extended reflection on a single question: “Now the real problem of pure reason is contained in the question: how are synthetic a priori judgements possible?” (CPR B19). The question “how is synthetic a priori cognition possible? ” is the transcendental question. Kant’s famous 1772 letter to Marcus Herz –a letter this paper aims to explicate– already contains an outline of the first Critique and is quite important if we want to understand the genesis of the transcendental question. For Kant, transcendental philosophy, “which necessarily precedes all metaphysics”, is nothing but the complete solution, “in systematical order and completeness”, of the problem of pure reason, and he can then say that “it is not surprising that when a whole science (...), in itself quite new, is required to answer a –single question satisfactorily, we should find the answer troublesome and difficult, nay even shrouded in obscurity.” (Prolegomena, § 5, Ak IV, p. 279).
This paper was published, in November 2017, in Direito & Práxis ( Rio de Janeiro), Vol. 08, N. 3, pp. 2173-2198.

The two paths of freedom in Kant: Ricoeur as a reader of Kant (Portuguese version)

This paper aims to elucidate how Kant conceives freedom as “absolute spontaneity” or “absolute se... more This paper aims to elucidate how Kant conceives freedom as “absolute spontaneity” or “absolute self-activity [absolute Selbsttätigkeit]” and as “self-determination [Selbstbestimmung]”, by making reference to the two paths of freedom in his work – freedom as a kind of causality in the world (freedom in the cosmological sense, or transcendental freedom) and freedom as the exclusive privilege of man as a rational being (freedom in the practical sense, or practical freedom).

Ricoeur on Justice (Portuguese version)

Revista Interdisciplinar de Direito da Faculdade de Direito de Valença, 2012

Résumé: Du lieu philosophique du juste à la pratique de la justice (à la pratique judiciaire), ca... more Résumé: Du lieu philosophique du juste à la pratique de la justice (à la pratique judiciaire), caractérisée par les occasions (les circonstances ) de la justice (c'est-à-dire les situations auxquelles le droit donne la forme du procès), par les voies et moyens de la justice (les canaux au plan institutionnel, c'est-à dire l'appareil judiciaire lui-même comprenant non seulement un corps de lois écrites, mais aussi des tribunaux ou des cours de justice, investis de la fonction de dire le droit, des juges, c'est-à-dire des individus réputés indépendants et chargés de prononcer la sentence juste dans une circonstance particulière, et le monopole de la coercition, autrement dit, le pouvoir d'imposer une décision de la justice par l'emploi de la force publique), et par les arguments au niveau du discours de la justice: voici le parcours de cet exposé.

Time and Narrative - Ricoeur's Poetics of Narrative (Portuguese revised version)

Résumé - Présentation très courte des trois volumes de l'oeuvre Temps et Récit (1983-1985) de Pau... more Résumé - Présentation très courte des trois volumes de l'oeuvre Temps et Récit (1983-1985) de Paul Ricoeur. La composition narrative constitue une riposte au caractère aporétique de la spéculation sur le temps et il s'agit d'expliciter la pertinence de cette réplique du récit aux apories du temps.

The process of the trial and the sanction: declaring the law and the failure of justice [Portuguese version]

Résumé: Dans toutes les subdivisions du droit – pénal, civil, social, international –, la deman... more Résumé: Dans toutes les subdivisions du droit – pénal, civil, social, international –, la demande de justice surgit dans des situations de conflit (les circonstances, ou occasions, de la justice) auxquelles le droit donne la forme du procès. C’est donc dans la structure même du procès, disait Ricoeur, tel qu’il se déroule (ou tel qu’il devrait se dérouler) dans un État de droit, qu’il faut chercher le principe de la coupure entre vengance et justice. Avant de décomposer le procès en ses élémentts structuraux, Ricoeur le caractérise globalement en ces termes: “il consiste à établir une juste distance entre le forfait qui déclenche la colère privée et publique, et la punition infligée par l’institution judiciaire” . En qualifiant comme sentence l’acte terminal du procès, on n’a pas encore dit l’essentiel concernant la sanction. La sentence clôt le procès et assigne aux parties elles-mêmes les places qui déterminent la juste distance entre vengance et justice. Commence alors une autre histoire pour le coupable condamné, qui n’est plus celle du procès , mais celle de la sanction (ou de l’éxécution de la peine). Sa justification constitue, pour Ricoeur, le point aveugle (et aussi scandale intellectuel) de tout le système judiciaire.

Philosophy, Violence and Action in Eric Weil (Portuguese revised version)

A minor text on Eric Weil.

Violence and/or Politics - Reading Foucault (Portuguese version)

Poder, normalização e violência: Incursões foucaultianas para a atualidade, 2008

A questão da guerra como princípio eventual de análise das relações de poder, a questão do nascim... more A questão da guerra como princípio eventual de análise das relações de poder, a questão do nascimento do discurso histórico-político da luta das raças (nos séculos XVI e XVII) e a do aparecimento do racismo de Estado (no início do século XX), assim como a questão de duas novas tecnologias de poder, a disciplina ou o poder disciplinar e a biopolítica (a partir do século XVII, início do século XVIII, e por volta da segunda metade do século XVIII, início do século XIX), de sua especificidade e de sua articulação, são questões centrais no curso "Il faut défendre la société" que Foucault apresentou no Collège de France de 7 de janeiro a 17 de março de 1976, ou seja, entre a publicação de Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la prison (fevereiro de 1975) e a publicação de La volonté de savoir, o primeiro volume de sua Histoire de la Sexualité (outubro de 1976), um curso que foi finalmente publicado no início de 1997 (em fevereiro). 1

Power, War, and Violence. A mere outline for a de-re-construction of politics (Portuguese version)

Publicado primeiramente, em Belo Horizonte, in Constituição e Processo. A resposta do constitucio... more

Philosophy as Discourse of Modernity (Portuguese version)

Foucault's location of his own theoretical trajectory as a form of reflection which runs from “He... more Foucault's location of his own theoretical trajectory as a form of reflection which runs from “Hegel through Nietzsche or Max Weber, to Horkheimer or Habermas” supporting the philosophical question of the Enlightenment provides an entry into his work. The aim of this now old paper is to identify and situate the philosophical ethos which exhibits itself in Michel Foucault's work

Foucault on the Birth of the Asylum as a Sign of Exclusion (Portuguese version)

A very minor text published in 2003.

Calvet - Signe ou Symbole (1981)

Signe ou Symbole - Introduction à la Théorie Sémiotique de C. S. Peirce, 1981

Publication of my PhD Dissertation Signe ou Symbole - Introduction à la Théorie Sémiotique de C. ... more

Calvet - Un, Deux, Trois Catégories Fondamentales (1981)

Un, Deux. Trois Catégories Fondamentales, 1981

Publication of the Preface and Chapter 3 of my book Signe ou Symbole - Introduction à la théorie ... more

Book - An Homage 2013

Direito, Filosofia, Ética e Linguagem, 2013

Book- Homage (a sort of a Festschrift) - a collection of Essays published in 2013, in Juiz de For... more

Book An Homage 2013(1)

Direito, Filosofia, Ética e Linguagem, 2013

An Homage - collection of Essays (a-sort of a Festschrift) published in 2013 in Juiz de Fora (Min... more

Analytic Philosophy and Political Philosophy: The public dimension of language

On Michel Foucaut Two conferences June 28 and 29 2023

Two conferences at the Faculty of Law- UFMG, on the recent publication of a Foucault posthumous w... more Two conferences at the Faculty of Law- UFMG, on the recent publication of a Foucault posthumous work Confessions of the Flesh (English translation, 2021) - June 28-29, 2023

Adding a correction:
I made a blunder at the very end of my second lecture on June 29, 2023, when I said that the text of Michel Foucault’s lecture “Qu’est-ce que la Critique?” [What is Critique?] given to the French Society of Philosophy on May 27, 1978, following his return from an extended stay in Japan, and first published only ten years later in Bulletin de la Société française de philosophie, t. LXXXIV, n. 2 (1990), pp. pp. 35-63 – surprisingly or strangely omitted both from Dits et Ecrits [1994] and from Cahiers de l’Herne N. 95: Foucault [2011] –, and praised Gabriela Lafetá Borges’ Portuguese translation of this lecture, published online [https://michel-foucault.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13213792/critica.pdf], but insisted that one could not find this lecture in print, I was fortunate that Prof. Marcelo Cattoni immediately checked his smartphone and in a second found out that not only this lecture together with “La culture de soi” (1983) was published in Paris (France), in 2015, by Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, and also in Lisbon (Portugal), in 2017, by Edições Texto & Grafia. I do thank Prof. Marcelo Cattoni for this correction.
In fact this lecture was already translated by Kevin Paul Geiman, and published in 1996, in James Schmidt (ed.), What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions [Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, pp. 382-398.], and also by Lysa Hochroth, published in Los Angeles (California), in 1997, by Semiotext(e) in Sylvère Lotringer (ed.), Politics of truth, pp. 23-82. These two texts - “What is Critique?” and “The Culture of the Self” - are also announced to be published, in 2024, by The University of Chicago Press.

First Conference in 1976

My first lecture in Bloomington (Indiana) at the Linguistic Club on Charles S. Peirce's Semiotic ... more

Calvet Neoliberalisme Populisme Democratie Affiche LISP 3300

Two seminars on Neo-liberalism Populism and Democracy - UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain), ... more

Homage to Michel Foucault : Discipline and Punish forty years on

Public Lecture at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) School of Law (Graduate Program ... more

Short course on Foucault and Derrida reading Kant

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In fact it was Foucault reading Kant and Yves-Charles Zarka reading Kant - a great short course with the very best students (I was quite lucky to have such an audience).

Bibliography:

Michel Foucault, Le gouvernement de soi et des autres (Cours au Collège de France. 1982-1983). Frédéric Gros (ed.). Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 2008, pp. 25-39.

I. Kant, "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?" [1784].

----- . "Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf" [1795].

Yves Charles Zarka - "Cosmopolitisme et hospitalité chez Kant", in: Kant cosmopolitique (Yves Charles Zarka and Caroline Guibet Lafaye), Paris: Éditions de l'éclat, 2008, pp. 19-30.

------(avec la collaboration de Cynthia Fleury), Difficile Tolérance. Paris: PUF, 2004.

----. L' inappropriabilité de la Terre. Principe d'une refondation philosophique. Paris: Armand Colin, 2013.

-------. Refonder le cosmopolitisme. Paris: PUF, 2014.

Calvet - Philosophical Variations on Time - An undergraduate course in 2002

An undergraduate course in 2002 - Philosophical Variations on Time: E. Husserl, H. Bergson, M. He... more

Cattoni and Calvet - Graduate Course on Ricoeur and a just memory - 2Sem 2023

A graduate course on Paul Ricoeur and a just memory. Rereading Memory , History, Forgetting (Engl... more A graduate course on Paul Ricoeur and a just memory. Rereading Memory , History, Forgetting (English trans: Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer), 2004.

Added Bibliography:

Badiou, Alain. “Le sujet supposé chrétien de Paul Ricoeur” [Autour de Paul Ricoeur, La Mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli, Paris, Le Seuil, 2000], in L’aventure de la philosophie française. Paris: La Fabrique, 2012, pp. 81-98.

Derrida, Jacques. Mal d’archive. Une impression freudienne (London, June 5, 1994: International Conference Memory: The Question of Archives). Paris: Galilée, 1995 (Portuguese translation Claudia de Moraes Rego: Mal de Arquivo. Uma impressão freudiana, Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2001).

Dosse, François. Paul Ricoeur. Les sens d’une vie. Paris: La Découverte, 1997.

Dosse, François; Goldenstein, Catherine. Paul Ricoeur: penser la mémoire. Paris: Seuil: 2013.

Fogu, Claudio et al. (eds.). Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture. Cambridge (Mass,): Harvard University Press, 2016 (read the Epilogue: "Interview with Saul Friedländer", pp. 411-425).

Friedlander, Saul (ed.) - Probing the Limits of Representation - Nazism and the "Final Solution". Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1992.

Ginzburg, Carlo. "Just One Witness", in Friedlander, Saul (ed.) - Probing the Limits of Representation - Nazism and the "Final Solution". Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1992 pp. 82-96.

La pensée Ricoeur, Revue Esprit No. 323 (2006), pp. 1-318.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Race et Histoire [1952]. Paris: Gonthier, 1961 [Tradução de Inácia Canelas: Raça e História, Lisboa: Editorial Presença. 1980 (3ª edição)].

Margalit, Avishai. The Ethics of Memory. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1996.

Memory, History, Forgiveness. A Dialogue Between Paul Ricoeur and Sorin Antohi [March 10, 2003], Janus Head, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2005), pp. 8-25.

Pomian, Krysztof. "De l'histoire, partie de la mémoire, à la mémoire, objet d'histoire", Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, No. 1 (1998), pp . 63-110.

---------. Sur l’histoire. Paris: Gallimard, 1999.

---------. "Sur les rapports de la mémoire et de l'histoire", Le Débat 2002/5 (n° 122), p. 32-40.

Revel, Judith - Dictionnaire Foucault, Paris: Ellipses, 2008, [“Archéologie”, “Archive”], pp. 13-16.

Ricoeur, Paul. "Expliquer et comprendre. Sur quelques connexions remarquables entre la théorie du texte, la théorie de l'action et la théorie de l'histoire. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain, tome 75, n°25, 1977, pp. 126-147.

---------. Réflexion faite. Autobiographie intellectuelle. Paris: Editions Esprit, 1995.

--------. "L'écriture de l'histoire et la représentation du passé". In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, n. 4, 2000, pp. 731-747.

----------. Vivant jusqu'à la mort. Paris: Seuil, 2007.

Todorov, Tzvetan. Les abus de la mémoire [1992]. Paris: Arléa, 2004.

Aula "Contextualizando as críticas de Kelsen a Pashukanis" (8 de novembro de 2022) [Contextualizing Kelsen's critique of Pashukanis

A class on Kelsen and his critique of Pashukanis, on November 8, 2022, to students in a Prof. Ma... more

Graduate Course Faculty of Law - UFMG, 1 Sem 2022 [Seminários Metodológicos Linha 3: Rereading Henri Lefebvre]

by Theresa Calvet and Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira

A course on Henri Lefebvre's Logique formelle, Logique dialectique (1982 - third editon)).

Graduate course Law Faculty, UFMG-2 Sem 2021 (Temas em Teoria da Constituição: Leituras de Ernst Fraenkel e de Franz Neumann)

by Theresa Calvet, Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira, and Adamo Dias Alves

Alemanha Nazista: Estado dual e/ou economia monopolista totalitária? Contextualização. Ernst Frae... more

Temas de Filosofia do Direito - Profs. Theresa Calvet e Marcelo Cattoni - 1º Sem 2021

Do declínio do liberalismo à sua crítica. O Colóquio Lippmann. A crítica ao fascismo, por Polanyi... more

Calvet CRISES DA DEMOCRACIA E CRITICA DEMOCRATICA DO POPULISMO 20202

Disciplina 20202 - Faculdade de Direito da UFMG. Programa e Ementa EMENTA: Da concepção minimali... more Disciplina 20202 - Faculdade de Direito da UFMG. Programa e Ementa
EMENTA: Da concepção minimalista da democracia defendida em 1999 por Adam Przeworski à sua obra Crises of Democracy (2019) e da crítica aprofundada da teoria democrática que estrutura o populismo tal como foi elaborada por Pierre Rosanvallon em sua obra Le siècle du populisme (2020), esta disciplina visa uma reflexão crítica de duas obras recentes que nos permitem talvez constituir uma alternativa forte à oferta populista.

Calvet - Graduate Course Faculty of Law (UFMG) - Crises da Democracia e Critica democrática do populismo

CÓDIGO DA DISCIPLINA DIP DIR899 TEMA TEMAS DE FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO SUBTEMA Crises da Democraci... more CÓDIGO DA DISCIPLINA DIP DIR899
TEMA TEMAS DE FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO
SUBTEMA Crises da Democracia e crítica democrática do populismo: Dialogando com Adam Przeworski e Pierre Rosanvallon
EMENTA Da concepção minimalista da democracia defendida em 1999 por Adam Przeworski à sua obra Crises of Democracy (2019) e da crítica aprofundada da teoria democrática que estrutura o populismo tal como foi elaborada por Pierre Rosanvallon em sua obra Le siècle du populisme (2020), esta disciplina visa uma reflexão crítica de duas obras recentes que nos permitem talvez constituir uma alternativa forte à oferta populista.

FACULDADE DE DIREITO_UFMG TEMAS DE FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO

TEMAS DE FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO SUBTEMA: Crises da Democracia e crítica democrática do populismo: ... more TEMAS DE FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO
SUBTEMA: Crises da Democracia e crítica democrática do populismo: Dialogando com Adam Przeworski e Pierre Rosanvallon
EMENTA - Da concepção minimalista da democracia defendida em 1999 por Adam Przeworski à sua obra Crises of Democracy (2019) e da crítica aprofundada da teoria democrática que estrutura o populismo tal como foi elaborada por Pierre Rosanvallon em sua obra Le siècle du populisme (2020), esta disciplina visa uma reflexão crítica de duas obras recentes que nos permitem talvez constituir uma alternativa forte à oferta populista

Juste une partie remise (or simply postponed) Centre de Philosophie du Droit-UCL

Due to Covid-19, my one month stay in Belgium at the Centre de Philosophie du Droit (UCL - Cathol... more

FACULDADE DE DIREITO DA UFMG PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM DIREITO Disciplina (DIP DIR899): TEMAS DE FILOSOFIA DO DIREITO

Program and Bibliography of my graduate course on Hannah Arendt this second semester 2019, at the... more

Before it is too late and not wanting to frustrate one of my very best friends

Information on a citation in Hannah Arendt's "Prologue" to The Human Condition (1958)

PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM DIREITO DA UFMG DISCIPLINA 2019.2 [Faculty of Law (Federal University of Minas Gerais) - Graduate Course on Arendt [Contra Hannah Arendt? Critical Readings] - 2nd Semester 2019]

Faculty of Law (Federal University of Minas Gerais) - Graduate Course on Arendt [Contra Hannah Ar... more Faculty of Law (Federal University of Minas Gerais) - Graduate Course on Arendt [Contra Hannah Arendt? Critical Readings] - 2nd Semester 2019: Voltando trinta e cinco anos depois a um texto polêmico [“A atividade humana do trabalho [labor] em Hannah Arendt”], escrito primeiro em francês, e apresentado em abril de 1984, no contexto de um curso sobre Hannah Arendt, conduzido na forma de um seminário semanal destinado a alunos de doutorado, oferecido por Jacques Taminiaux, no Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, na Université Catholique de Louvain, em Louvain-la-Neuve (Bélgica), durante a minha estadia de pós-doutorado junto a esse Instituto, trata-se não apenas de apresentar e explicitar essa leitura crítica do terceiro capítulo da
obra The Human Condition [1958], mas de retomar e criticar Arendt e a sua concepção do totalitarismo, da ação, do pensamento, do político e da politica

Thomas A. Sebeok - Teaching Semiotics: Report on a Pilot Program

The Sign & Its Masters - Appendix III, 1979

The beginning of my academic work/life. A long time ago - when I still believed in academic life.

FACULDADE DE DIREITO DA UFMG PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM DIREITO Disciplina: Os Fascismos, o "Populismo", e as Extremas-Direitas: Uma Releitura Crítica,

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Para definir o fascismo, temos de escrever sua história. Trata-se, assim, nesta disciplina de elucidar os dados históricos concretos que presidem ao nascimento dos fascismos e, também, de explicitar o “populismo” como uma patologia política (a forma extrema da antipolítica) e a emergência de múltiplos partidos de extrema-direita ou movimentos que reúnem um certo número de traços comuns às diversas famílias da direita radical. O preâmbulo desta disciplina e o seu epilogo podem ser considerados com um pano de fundo para o que será apresentado e questionado.

For the record Dissertacao reprovada direito de resposta publicado

For the record: my reply [“direito de resposta”] in May 18, 1985, in a local newspaper “O Norte”... more

Revised Portuguese translation of Emmanuel Faye's 2011 Rio de Janeiro conference

A revised translation of the Portuguese published version of a conference Emmanuel Faye gave in R... more

PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM DIREITO DA UFMG PLANO DE ENSINO da Disciplina Democracia, Direito e Governança.

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FACULDADE DE DIREITO DA UFMG PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM DIREITO Disciplina: Reinventar a Democracia: Democracia passado e futuro.

Graduate Course Faculty of Law (Federal University of Minas Gerais) on Reinventing Democracy - 1s... more Graduate Course Faculty of Law (Federal University of Minas Gerais) on Reinventing Democracy - 1st Semester 2018: Reinventar a Democracia. É para além dos procedimentos eleitorais representativos que temos de apreender agora a democracia e considerar o seu desenvolvimento. A democracia como uma forma de sociedade.