Celso Furtado , republicanism and political liberties

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to understand Celso Furtado’s economic ideas in the context of the crisis of the early sixties in Brazil from the perspective of linguistic contextualism of the Cambridge School of Political Thought. It evaluates if it is possible to conceive his ideas as a “neo-republican political economy” (Dagger, 2006). The hypothesis that Celso Furtado has made use of humanistc values and of a conception of republican political liberty understood as no domination to persuade contemporary political actors about importance of avoiding institutional breakdown in brazilian republic is tested.