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Nietzsche
O ensaio biográfico de Stefan Zweig sobre Friedrich Nietzsche reafirma a atração do escritor austríaco pelo lado mais obscuro da alma humana. Não lhe interessava o sucesso. Zweig era fascinado pela tragédia, pelas ambiguidades e pelo fracasso como uma mariposa é atraída pela luz. Ele tinha 42 anos quando publicou esta biografia, mas o filósofo alemão já morrera havia 25 anos. Ou seja, não faltava a Zweig nem material nem distância temporal para analisar amplamente a obra nietzschiana. No entanto, há um ponto focal que hipnotiza Zweig e ofusca uma visão mais abrangente da obra do filósofo — e é, precisamente, seu lado mais humano e sofrido. O que o interessa e o que o intri...
Portraits of Women in International Law
Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? Or have others been erased from the collective images of this history, including the portrait gallery of notables in international law? Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law. The forty-two textual and visual representations by a diverse team of passionate portraitists represent women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around ...
Biographical dictionary of refugees of nazi fascism in Brazil
They were musicians, writers, painters, actors, scientists, mathematicians, architects, doctors, photographers, dancers, businessmen and even circus clowns, police officers and football coaches. All refugees from nazi fascism, who sought salvation from 1933 onwards. They are remembered in 300 illustrated biographies, representing the thousands of fugitives who made or remade their lives and careers in Brazil and contributed so much to Brazilian society. Each trajectory, an epic, from birth and training in the Old World, the terrible dangers and sufferings faced with the arrival of Nazism, the struggles and adventures to escape, obtain visas and embark towards freedom. The Dictionary of Refugees from Nazi fascism in Brazil reports all this. It is yet another publication by Casa Stefan Zweig, based in Petrópolis and dedicated to the dissemination and study of the work of the great Austrian writer who died here and the role of refugees who, like him, escaped from the totalitarianism.
Awkward Powers: Escaping Traditional Great and Middle Power Theory
This book introduces the editors’ new concept of “Awkward Powers”. By undertaking a critical re-examination of the state of International Relations theorising on the changing nature of the global power hierarchy, it draws attention to a number of countries that fit awkwardly into existing but outdated categories such as “great power” and “middle power”. It argues that conceptual categories pertaining to the apex of the international hierarchy have become increasingly unsatisfactory, and that new approaches focusing on such “Awkward Powers” can both rectify shortcomings on power theorising whilst shining a much-needed theoretical spotlight on significant but understudied states. The book’s contributors examine a broad range of empirical case studies, including both established and rising powers across a global scale to illustrate our conceptual claims. Through such a novel process, we argue that a better appreciation of the de facto international power hierarchy in the 21st century can be achieved.
Diaspora and Law
Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned. Different overlapping legal systems constantly interfere with one another, both on an international level, in complex transnational contexts such as the European Union or human rights law, but also in the context of cultural diversity or conflicts between religious norms and civil institutions, between minorities and the power of the state. On the other hand, the neutrality of law is also under growing pressure, be it from different global transnational players, or from within nation states where calls are made to adapt law to the will of "the people." The heated European debate on the "refugee crisis" has made it manifest that law is more ...
The Impossible Exile
An original study of exile, told through the biography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile—from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally Petrópolis—where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. The Impossible Exile tells the tragic story of Zweig’s extraordinary rise and fall while it also depicts, with great acumen, the gulf between the world of ideas in Europe and in America, and the consuming struggle of those forced to forsake one for the other. It also reveals how Zweig embodied, through his work, thoughts, and behavior, the end of an era—the implosion of Europe as an ideal of Western civilization.
Brasil, um país do futuro
Resultado de uma extensa pesquisa aliada ao olhar crítico de Zweig, "Brasil, um país do futuro" é uma obra que surpreende os leitores contemporâneos pela riqueza dos temas abordados. De fato, algumas das previsões feitas por Zweig não se concretizaram, mas o livro não se trata apenas disso. Zweig pensa no futuro analisando o que vê e o que sente do contato com o povo brasileiro. Ele conduz o leitor a passeios pela Bahia, pelo Recife, pelos morros do Rio de Janeiro, observa hábitos da cultura brasileira que se destacam aos olhos estrangeiros, como o simples fato de sempre haver um café fresco para receber um visitante. Além desses dados pitorescos, o autor se aprofunda em uma análise sobre a história e a economia brasileiras, fazendo com que este livro seja, ao mesmo tempo, um documento histórico, uma crônica, um registro de impressões escrito pelas mãos de um célebre autor europeu que se impressionou e se emocionou com o que viu.
Atividade sindical no Brasil e os desafios da representatividade dos trabalhadores no contexto da precarização das relações de trabalho
Sindicatos têm em sua essência o propósito de representar determinadas categorias para a consecução organizada dos seus objetivos. Entidades ligadas às empresas naturalmente defendem os donos dos meios de produção, enquanto entidades ligadas aos trabalhadores têm por natureza a defesa dos interesses dos trabalhadores. Não se exige maior esforço argumentativo para conduzir a compreensão quanto aos fins das entidades sindicais, isso porque tais fins estão intimamente ligados à secular polarização entre capital e trabalho. Ocorre que, no Brasil, as lutas que permitiram a organização sindical ser elevada ao patamar de direito social com status constitucional não foram suficien...
