Abstract

Since 1934, when the University of São Paulo was set up, Philosophy courses in Brazil were more and more influenced by the French view of the historiography of Philosophy, thus determining the historic-philosophical character of most of the research done and of the curricula in this area. Mainly from the early 1960s there emerged criticisms and self-criticisms favoring a shift away from the mere historical practice and towards a clearly philosophic, doctrinal and critical one. The present paper is concerned with discussing this tendency and looking for a better understanding of this recent academic philosophical phenomenon in Brazil, and with doing this on the basis of the historically testimonies that are relevant to it.