Florestan Fernandes revisited

Abstract

THE AUTHOR describes Florestan Fernandes' intellectual biography in three phases. The first phase, which she calls the "cientific-academic stage", covers the period 1941-1968. The second phase, the "political-revolutionary stage", corresponds to the years 1970-1986. Finally, the third phase is what she calls the "lonely militant stage" (1986-1995), in which all facets of Fernandes' itinerary come together under the heading of the "intellectual", in Jürgen Habermas' definition.