Bento Prado, Jr. - Error, Illusion, Madness

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2 Series Title Series Title Critical South The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation . Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, Seven Essays on Populism Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness” Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution Karima Lazali, Colonial Trauma María Pia López, Not One Less Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose Bento Prado Jr., Error, Illusion, Madness Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register

3 Title Page Error, Illusion, Madness Bento Prado Jr. Commentaries by Arley Ramos Moreno, Sérgio Cardoso, and Paulo Eduardo Arantes Translated by Marco Alexandre de Oliveira and Rodrigo Nunes polity

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5 Dedication

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8 Foreword—Vladimir Safatle Is there such a thing as a point of view of the periphery? A common place without a proper grammar Persuasion Phusis Notes

9 Preface Notes

10 1 Error, Illusion, Madness I II III IV Error, Illusion, MadnessCommentary by Arley Ramos Moreno Notes

11 2 Descartes and the Last Wittgenstein: The Dream Argument Revisited I II III IV Notes

12 3 Wittgenstein: Culture and Value I II III IV Notes

13 4 The Plane of Immanence and Life I II III Acknowledgments Translator’s note Values and the Plane of ImmanenceCommentary by Arley Ramos Moreno Notes

14 5 Relativism as a Counterpoint I II III IV Bento Prado Jr.’s Lecture on RelativismCommentary by Sérgio Cardoso Neither Apel nor RortyCommentary by Paulo Eduardo Arantes Notes

15 6 On Deleuze: An Interview Notes

16 7 Bergson, 110 Years Later Notes

17 Bibliography Extras

18 Index

19 End User License Agreement

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The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series editors: Natalia Brizuela and Leticia Sabsay

Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography

Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, Seven Essays on Populism

Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black

Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness”

Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development

Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution

Karima Lazali, Colonial Trauma

María Pia López, Not One Less

Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice

Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose

Bento Prado Jr., Error, Illusion, Madness

Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax Utxiwa

Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register

Bento Prado Jr.

Commentaries by

Arley Ramos Moreno,

Sérgio Cardoso, and

Paulo Eduardo Arantes

Translated by

Marco Alexandre de Oliveira and Rodrigo Nunes

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Originally published in Portuguese as Erro, ilusão, loucura . Copyright © Editora 34 Ltda./Heirs of Bento Prado Jr., 2018. Copyright © Arley Ramos Moreno, Sérgio Cardoso, and Paulo Eduardo Arantes, for their texts, 2018. Published by arrangement with Editora 34 Ltda. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

This English edition © 2021 by Polity Press

Chapter 4, ‘The Plane of Immanence and Life’ by Bento Prado Júnior and translated by Michael B. Wrigley, was originally published in Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze , edited by Jean Khalfa. English translation copyright © 2003 Continuum Publishing. Reprinted with permission of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.

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