THE RECEPTION OF THE ARTICLE REMARQUES SUR LA MÉTHODE STRUCTURALE EN HISTOIRE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE, BY VICTOR GOLDSCHMIDT, IN BRAZIL:

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Abstract

In 1981, Victor Goldschmidt contributed with the work "Remarques sur la Méthode Structurale en Histoire de la Philosophie" as part of a collection of studies celebrating the 60th anniversary of the philosopher Fernand Brunner. The following year, this text reached Brazil more widely when it was published by the journal Manuscrito. The main purpose of this article is twofold: on the one hand, to contextualize the reception of the structuralist philosopher's article in philosophy research in Brazil and, on the other hand, to present the translation that we carried out of his last theoretical-methodological writing for the Brazilian audience. For this, we made a brief contextualization of how the historiography of philosophy, in general, and structuralism, in particular, were being debated in France. Later, we visited some Brazilian authors who have used the author's thinking to support their works and even criticize him. In this respect, we have placed special emphasis on Porchat, who was Goldschimidt´s PHD advisee. We think that this text can contribute to shedding light on our tradition and education in philosophy and on the place that Goldschmidt occupies in them.