Darcy Ribeiro and a Global Theory from the South
Brazilian social scientist and public intellectual Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997) left a legacy of nearly 1,000 pages of written work. It is still underexplored, even within Brazilian academia, despite the 90 editions of his work published in dozens of languages – a rare achievement among Latin American authors. The relative silence surrounding his theses may be attributed to ideological disagreements and discomfort with his staunch advocacy of the engaged...