Oswald’s main sources of philosophical anthropophagy: Marx, Nietzsche and Freud

Abstract

This article describes the main sources of philosophical anthropophagy and their respective modes of critical appropriation in Oswald de Andrade’s theoretical realization. In it, we present how Oswald’s philosophy, in its own way, associates, recontextualizes and updates concepts and arguments presented by classic authors such as Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. From a poetic way of doing philosophy from Brazil, Oswald makes use of images and explicit affections that aim to awaken a new way of acting and thinking that, according to the terminology of anthropophagic philosophy, is consistent with the technologized primitive, the human being of the future, part of the ideal matriarchy of Pindorama. In order to understand this utopia, we comment on and analyze the texts in which Oswald cites these authors consecrated by the European philosophical tradition and evaluate how these authors are inserted into a theory in formation by a poet who pretends to be a philosopher. It is an essay that briefly clarifies how Oswald assimilates Marx’s critique of capitalism, Nietzsche’s evaluation of Christianity and Freud’s opinion on sexuality. In a spontaneous and stripped-down way, Oswald’s philosophical texts invite these authors to take part in a dialog that is consistent with the imaginary and reflective forms of southern culture.