Abstract
In this article I discuss José Miguel Wisnik's book, Veneno remédio: o futebol e o Brasil [Poison cure: football and Brazil], published in 2008. I point out how the work's discussion of football enables a new approach to impasses already explored by modernists, reviving some of their fundamental uncertainties. I also analyze how the book forms part of the lineage of great inquiries into Brazil by refuting the hermeneutic enterprise of our classic essayists.
Translated title of the contribution | Modernism in focus: The WiSnik case |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 187-216 |
Number of pages | 30 |
Journal | Tempo Social |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2010 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Social Sciences
Keywords
- Brazilian social thought
- Football
- Gilberto freyre
- José miguel wisnik
- Mário de andrade
- Sérgio buarque de holanda