Foreword

Abstract

In this second issue of the Interthesis Interdisciplinary Journal, we bring you unpublished articles, reviews and even one translation. The article by Gilberto Montibeller leads to a reflection on how the international commercial relationships can generate an ecologically unsustainable situation concerning an environmental social space, presenting the coal region of the state of Santa Catarina as an example. Javier Echeverría discusses critically the progress and the economic development issues, emphasizing the importance of ethics in the analysis of the social and human cost in economy. The contribution of Paulo Krischke raises questions on the current political culture of the Brazilian youth and its likely future changes, based on the data examination of a nationwide research performed by "survey". Daniel Widlöcher makes a cognitive verification of the psychoanalytical silence, taking into account the neuropsychology of the aphasia and the communication ways present in the clinical work of Psychoanalysis, employing for that the theoretical frames of the communication pragmatics. The article by Rodrigo Duarte has, as its starting point, the discovery of an incongruity in the date of construction of a chapel in the state of Minas Gerais, and reflects upon the influence of the culture industry over the countryside Brazilian architecture, characterized by the "kitsch" element. In addition to the articles described above, we still count on five reviews of recently published books, written up by Leandro Oltramari, Carlos Serbena, Cláudia Silveira, Silmara Cimbalista and Clóvis Dorigon. Finally, we present a translation into Portuguese by Selvino Assmann, from an Italian text by Umberto Galimberti, still unpublished in Brazil. We would like to let you know that, from now on, we will be publishing articles only in Portuguese, Spanish and English. We have a great expectancy that the themes presented in the material published here generate reflection and disseminate knowledge. Thank you very much for your interest in our publications and we do hope you can profit from reading them, and can have a good time as well. We will be back in August, 2005! Rafael Raffaelli Editor