A entrevista para Silviano Santiago: modos de redimensionar categorias críticas

Abstract

The intellectual's doing today is a question that generates much discussion due to the new demands of socioeconomic reorganization experienced in the digital era. Some critics have presented considerations about the intellectual performance, according to their respective historical contexts, which will guide the analyzes constructed in this study on the work of the writer Silviano Santiago as an intellectual willing to exercise cultural mediation in his country and America- Latina. Throughout his teaching, this author built a criticism that goes against the legitimacy of tradition, but does not advance on the identity issues that he has and are very strongly requested by his audience. A fact to emphasize about the intellectual performance of this author is a massive performance of his critical and fictional production in the curricula of the Brazilian Universities, besides having a very fluid dialogue with the main aspects of Latin American thought. What this study brings as a contribution to the study on the intellectual performance of this writer is the proposed analysis about the place that the interview has next to its production; which elements are involved in its construction; how it participates in the dissemination of this knowledge; how its composition as a media instrument is constituted; the demands to which it is subjected, among other issues involving cultural mediation, teaching performance and themes that its criticism proposes to account for, as well as those that escape from its hands.