Fatzer and its uses

• Grant number: 14/06139-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2014
• End date: September 30, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Eduardo Arantes
• Grantee: Pedro Mantovani
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This thesis proposes a reading of Brecht's unfinished work Fatzer, comparing the fragments published by the author in 1930, under the title Fatzer, with the collection of fragments that were not meant to be published, the Fatzer Complex. The reading will comprise, firstly, an analysis of the themes encrusted in the core of the two groups of fragments, namely, the hindrance of the revolution and the presumed conversion of the asocial into the revolutionary, in the light of its historical matrices. Secondly, the development of the hypothesis that the interruption of Brecht's work, observing rigorously a dialectical conception between form and history as a work principle, was due to the impossibility of finding any kind of totalizing form to the elaborated historical matters, due to instrinsical characteristics of such matters. Thirdly, the investigation of the fragment as form, suggested by Brecht at the end of his life, in contrast with the way that Heiner Müller uses this suggestion to elaborate his own notion of synthetic fragment and his 'version' of the material staged in 1978. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MANTOVANI, Pedro. Fatzer: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany. 2018. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.