Colecao Pensadores ❲RECOMMENDED — Edition❳

Today, the collection is out of print (though used copies are everywhere on Estante Virtual and at flea markets). But its spirit lives on in popular philosophy collections like L&PM Pocket or Editora Vozes . The long story of Coleção Os Pensadores is one of resistance through commerce – how a capitalist publisher sold Marxist philosophy to a dictatorial society, and in doing so, educated a nation.

It also represents a golden age of popular publishing in Brazil – when a media conglomerate risked printing Marx under a dictatorship, sold it to the masses, and changed the country's intellectual landscape. colecao pensadores

It sounds like you're referring to the (The Thinkers Collection), a renowned Brazilian series of philosophy books published by Abril Cultural (and later by Nova Cultural). The "long story" behind this collection is fascinating, involving politics, education, and a publishing phenomenon in Brazil during the 1970s–1990s. Today, the collection is out of print (though

Here is the of Coleção Os Pensadores . 1. The Context: Brazil Under Dictatorship (1964–1985) In the late 1960s and early 70s, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. Universities were purged of "subversive" professors, and many philosophical works (especially Marxist ones) were banned or hard to find. Censorship was rampant. It also represents a golden age of popular