Draft:Vamireh Chacon
Brazilian political scientist
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Vamireh Chacon de Albuquerque Nascimento (February 1, 1934 – September 18, 2023) was a Brazilian historian, political scientist, jurist, hispanist, and professor. In 2014, he was awarded the Machado de Assis Prize for his body of work, which includes studies on a wide range of subjects, in particular the cultural sphere he called ''Great Iberia'' and the evolution of social sciences in Brazil.
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Biography
Born in Recife to a family of Portuguese and Spanish descent, Chacon began his journalistic career as a teenager after a short trip to Europe, writing articles for Folha da Manhã.[1] After completing his law degree, he enrolled at the Catholic University of Pernambuco to study philosophy. In 1959, he earned a doctorate under Arnóbio Graça at the Faculty of Law of Recife, presenting a thesis titled Introdução ao problema da Sociologia do Direito. His works soon drew the attention of Gilberto Freyre, whom Chacon later met. Freyre had a significant role in his intellectual development and would eventually become the subject of an intellectual biography by Chacon.[2]
Another major influence on his work was the Recife School, to which he dedicated the study Da Escola do Recife ao Código Civil: Artur Orlando e sua geração and the book A luz do Norte: o Nordeste na história das ideias do Brasil.
In 1960, he completed postodoctorate studies at the University of Chicago and the following year he secured a position as a professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco with the thesis O fator econômico no marxismo.[3] In 1971, he was appointed full professor at the University of Brasília, where he became professur emeritus.
Chacon's works address several subjects, including Brazil's political institutions,[4] its intellectual culture, the influence of the Iberian Peninsula in Latin America, and biographies of figures such as the military officer José Inácio de Abreu e Lima and the diplomat Joaquim Nabuco.[5][6]
Works
- O antissemitismo no Brasil - Tentativa de interpretação sociológica (1955)
- Introdução ao problema da Sociologia do Direito (1959)
- Cooperativismo e comunitarismo: Estudo de organização socioeconômica (1959)
- A Revolução no trópico: Nacionalismo, Marxismo e Desenvolvimento (1962)
- Da Escola do Recife ao Código Civil: Artur Orlando e sua geração (1969)
- Economia e sociedade no Brasil - Ensaios de história econômica e social compreensiva (1973)
- Thomas Mann e o Brasil (1975)
- História ideias sociológicas no Brasil (1977)
- O dilema político brasileiro (1978)
- História das ideias socialistas no Brasil (1981)
- Parlamento e parlamentarismo: O Congresso Nacional na história do Brasil (1982)
- Abreu e Lima, general de Bolívar (1983)
- O poço do passado (1984)
- O novo parlamentarismo (1987)
- Vida e morte das constituições brasileiras (1987)
- A luz do Norte: o Nordeste na história das ideias do Brasil (1989)
- Deus é brasileiro: O imaginário do messianismo político no Brasil (1990)
- Gilberto Freyre: Uma biografia intelectual (1993)
- História institucional do Senado do Brasil (1997)
- História dos partidos brasileiros (1998)
- O humanismo ibérico: A escolástica progressista e a questão da modernidade (1998)
- A construção da brasilidade: Gilberto Freyre e sua geração (2001)
- O futuro político da Lusofonia (2002)
- Globalização e Estados transnacionais: Relações Internacionais no século XXI (2002)
- A Grande Ibéria: Convergências e divergências de uma tendência (2005)
- História do Legislativo Brasileiro: Câmara dos Deputados (2008)