Olavo de Carvalho: A Very Short Introduction
Carvalho may not be a stranger to long-time readers of this site, as he has written some texts that were published in the journal’s early days. An author and philosopher deeply influenced by Eric Voegelin in the Brazilian land, but still not so famous in the English-speaking countries, although he was not only present physically but appeared, as already said in this site, in blogs and the now defunct Inter-American Institute being its founder. However, I have decided to write a simple introduction to his life and work in the hope that it will encourage others to know, write, and read more about him.
Carvalho was born in Campinas, a city in the state of São Paulo, on April 29. 1947, the child of Nicéa Pimentel de Carvalho and Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho, who were divorced when he was eight years old. At 14, he devoted himself to high literature and became dissatisfied with the school curriculum, leaving school a year later at the age of 15.(1)(2) Olavo began his political career at the age of 19, joining the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) during the military dictatorship and after publishing an article about it in the journal of the Academic Center of the Law Faculty of the University of São Paulo (USP), he was contacted by Rui Falcão, then a law student and now president of the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT), both of whom were also friends with the future chief of staff of the presidency of Lula’s first government, José Dirceu, who was a law student at the PUC-SP. Olavo says he helped with a kidnapping in private custody for the party. His stay on the left lasted only two years, from 1966 to 1968.(3)(4)
Around the age of 17, he got his first job at a newspaper; he worked throughout his life as a freelancer in different newspapers, which, according to him, was a shock at that time, varying from well-known to not so well-known, some of them are: Folha de São Paulo, Bravo! Planeta, Primeira Leitura, Jornal do Brasil, Jornal da Tarde, O Globo, Época, Zero Hora e Diário do Comércio (5), where his tem-volume series; Cartas de um terráqueo ao planeta Brasil [Letters from an Earthling to the Planet Brazil] came from. Ironically, some of these newspapers, such as Folha; Época; O Globo, created several fake news stories to attack him during and after the Bolsonario election. He never completely left the journalist job; he created Midia Sem Máscara and had a partnership with some friends and students to run Brasil Sem Medo. The first one was created as a media watch for the Brazilian people, where they talked about news that was hidden and distorted by the local mídia, they also had a YouTube channel with interviews and conversations with collaborators; there were some TV episodes that can also be found on YouTube. The second was made in 2019, has some essays previously written by him and has recently ceased activity.
After meeting the Argentinean psychiatrist Juan Alfredo César Müller (1927–1990), who was teaching in Brazil, Olavo studied astrology for some time and became a real astrologer between 1978 and 1982. In addition to helping Müller write his books, he wrote essays and considered astrology “a problem that hasn’t been solved scientifically,” but left it after discovering that the astrology problem was too big for him. During this time, he was one of the founders of the Escola Júpiter de Astrologia, where they would have seminars and publications, among other things, to popularize this “science.” It is interesting to note that “philosophy was present in some of its contents the magazine under the authorship of Juan Alfredo César Müller and Olavo de Carvalho,”(6)(7) although the books he published at that time were renegade by himself and shouldn’t be considered as cannons parts of his philosophical work.
Olavo joined a Tariqa associated with Frithjof Schuon and strongly influenced by René Guénon, where he stayed for two years and left in 1987(8), abandoning the Gnostic faith only a few years later and returning to the Roman Catholicism in which he had been raised.
He took a course in philosophy with Stanislavs Ladusãns, at the Conpefil (Conjunto de Pesquisa Filosófica) of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), where he presented what was considered a final paper, a paper on the philosophy of Mário Ferreira dos Santos (someone whom Olavo greatly admires and who also influenced his philosophy) and one on Vladimir Soloviov.(9) However, he didn’t graduate; the professor died of a heart attack and was replaced by a professor of liberation theory, which Olavo didn’t like. He was also responsible for organizing and publishing the essays of Otto Maria Carpeaux in Brazil.(10)(11) His real intellectual career began with the publication Nova Era e a Revolução Cultural with IAL and Stella Caymmi Editora, later with the publisher Editora da Cidade, he published two books: the aforementioned Carpeaux essays and his first bestseller O Imbecil Coletivo a collection of essays about the decadence of the Brazilian culture. His major work, O Jardim das Afições, was published by Diadorim publisher.(12)
Moved to America in 2005, partly because he was receiving death threats, partly because Diário de Comércio offered him the opportunity to be their international correspondent, and he opened his main philosophical work, the Curso Online de Filosofía, or simply COF, where he would broadcast his classes from his house to Brazil.(13) Despite all this, Olavo really appears to the public after the release of O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota, a collection of essays on different topics organized by Felipe Moura Brasil and published by Record Editorial; the book is said to have sold around 400 thousand copies, making his name known to the general public, in the same publishing house there was a new edition of O Imbecil Coletivo.(14) In addition, Dilma’s impeachment passeata had cartazes with the phrase “Olavo tem razão” (Olavo is right), creating, in the eyes of the national media at the time, the father of the right-wing movement. After the 2018 Brazilian presidential election, in which Bolsonaro was the winner, he began to receive some international media attention, along with a more pronounced response from the national media; The Atlantic published an article about him. The article, however, couldn’t be further from the truth and was filled with lies and distortions from beginning to end. But I’m not writing a rebuke of that article (of course, something could be rebuked for the sake of argument).
In this case, for example, Letícia Duarte (the woman who wrote the article for The Atlantic) calls Olavo “the architect of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right vision.” Something quite far from the truth because Olavo didn’t teach politics to Bolsonario; in fact, Olavo’s course in politics is deeply rooted in Voegelin’s interpretation of politics—contempt of ideology, for example—so how could this happen, further, as Victor Bruno’s essay shows, three things simply don’t agree with each other, because in his assignment he considers Bolsonario a “symbolic pole” to everything right wing in Brazil, but Olavo is not his political vision architect, but mere: “[…] an anticommunist bent found in some of the actions of the government.”(15) Further, the ex-president went against Olavo’s theory of empires: “For instance, if Carvalho were truly Bolsonaro’s guru, dealings with Saudi Arabia, a part of the Islamic imperial project, would never even enter the president’s imagination, in my view. But they have.”(16)
All this is just the tip of the iceberg to show that Duarte’s assertion is false; another example of a clear contradiction between the news and reality is when she says: “[…] Olavo was the guest of honor at an event hosted by Bannon at the Trump Hotel in Washington, where the former White House chief strategist introduced him to a select group of about 100 conservative guests.” However, the host of the event was not Bannon, it was Gerald Brant—this information is from the same source she cites in the article—the conservative guest was also invited by Gerald, and it was the exhibition of O Jardim das Aflições [The Garden of Afflictions], a film about the philosophy and life of Olavo. I could go on, but I think I have made my point clear enough.
A person who has no connection to the original source of who has been talked about in the article will have an extreme prejudice against Olavo. This is not about “liking” or “agreeing” with his work; this is an attack on the neutrality of the journalist (and therefore also on the neutrality of the journal) and a piece of fake news created to shame him now that happened to a fairly famous person on one side of the globe, but not on the other (the one who published the news that is), it can happen to anyone.
Also, contrary to popular news sites and journalists, the reason Olavo died was not COVID-19; his doctor said in an official statement that it was “… acute respiratory failure due to COPD, congestive heart failure, bacterial pneumonia and generalized infection (septicemia) caused by Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly referred to by the acronyms MRSA. Conditions that have led to generalized thromboembolic events due to disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in multiple organs.”(17) He died on January 24. 2022 at the age of 74 in Richmond, Virginia.
Philosophy
His philosophy can be roughly summarized as “…based on intuition, a kind of direct contact between man and reality (hence his realism), on the primacy of truth without witnesses—a truthful record known, at the limit, to only one individual—and on the confessional method, a practice in which a person who becomes aware of something expresses it in such a way that he says something to an omniscient intelligence. His (radical) intuitionism consists of a threefold intuition in which premises, conclusions, and connections are captured, in which the primacy of intuition makes reason its auxiliary. From this thesis, he develops his philosophy of science and his ethics of the principle of authorship. He has a theory of the four discourses, based on Aristotle, in which four powers of human discourse govern four forms of expression; it can be extrapolated to a philosophy of culture. There is also a kratology, a subdivision of his political philosophy, in which he divides power into martial, financial, and intellectual/spiritual.”(18) Among the many new ideas are: The revolutionary mind, the cognitive parallax, the theory of the four discourses, the subject of history, the theory of empires, the principle of authorship, etc. We’re going to talk about some of them. But before we do that, we need to talk about Seminário de Filosofia.
Seminário de Filosofia—Olavo’s Philosophical Cathedra
Although the more common knowledge of when the Seminário began is 2009, there are some texts by him that show that it began at least in 1997. (19) Whatever the case, the fact is that for Olavo, his seminary is not the only place in Brazil where one can learn philosophy, but also a comprehensive educational system, a general introduction to higher education, a theory and practice of interdisciplinary, a path of spiritual asceticism, a method for developing personal intelligence.(20) To Mário Chainho (21) in O Magistério de Olavo de Carvalho: para uma paidéia integral, Carvalho’s idea of education approaches, with some differences, that of the Greek paidea.(22) In the Seminário itself, after Olavo moved to America, he created the Curso Online de Filosofía (COF), which started in 2009 with these premises, the course itself has more than 500 classes that it streamed weekly on Saturdays at 21hrs, it also has other courses that could be purchased and were made apart from it although their first and/or last classes were made on the COF, those courses are the following, names in italics represent courses that were transcribed and later published as a book:
Introduction to the philosophical method—Course in 6 classes recorded between September 29 and October 4, 2008;
Introduction to the philosophy of Eric Voegelin—Course in 6 lessons recorded between April 27 and May 2, 2009;
Fundamental concepts of psychology—Course in 6 lessons recorded between September 4 and 19, 2009;
Philosophy of science—Course in 6 lessons recorded between May 10 and 15, 2010;
Consciousness of immortality—Course in 6 lessons recorded between October 11 and 16, 2010;
Metaphysics: The Structure of Being—Course in 6 lessons recorded between May 23 and 28, 2012;
Roots of Modernity—Course in 6 lessons recorded between October 17 and 22, 2011;
Knowledge and morality—Course in 6 lessons recorded between May 7 and 12, 2012;
Principles and methods of self-education—Course in 6 lessons recorded between October 1st and 6th, 2012;
Introduction to the philosophy of Louis Lavelle—Course in 6 lessons recorded between May 6 and 11, 2013;
Sociology of Philosophy—Course in 6 lessons recorded between September 30 and October 5, 2013;
How to become an intelligent reader—Course in 6 lessons recorded between April 28 and May 3, 2014;
The Crisis of Intelligence according to Roger Scruton—Course in 6 lessons recorded from November 24 to 29, 2014;
The Formation of Personality—Course in 6 lessons recorded between May 18 and 23, 2015;
II Meeting of Brazilian Writers in Virginia—A series of 4 meetings from November 25 to 28, 2015;
Politics and Culture in Brazil: History and Perspectives—A 4-lesson course from April 12 to 15, 2016;
Cultural Warfare – History and Strategies—Online course in 5 lessons. August 31, 2016;
Esotericism in History and Today—Online course in 5 lessons from February 14 to March 14, broadcasting on Tuesdays. 2017;
Mário Ferreira dos Santos—Guide to the study of his work—Online course with 5 lessons from November 28th to December 2nd, 2017;
The War on Intelligence—what they’re doing to imbecilic you—Course with 5 lessons from March 5 to 9, 2018;
Symbolism and Cosmic Order—Yesterday and Today—Course with 5 lessons from August 21 to 25, 2018;
Being and Power—Principles and Methods of Political Science—Online course with 5 lessons from the 5th to the 8th of March 2019;
Political Science: Knowing, Predicting and Power—Online course with 5 lessons from April 20 to 29, 2021.
Let us discuss certain aspects of his philosophy.
Theory of Four Discourses
“Human discourse is a unique power, which is actualized in four different ways: poetics, rhetoric, dialectics and analytics (logic).”
This phrase, said by Carvalho in Aristotle in a New Perspective, is seen by him as a summary of this theory. He considers this the correct way to read Aristotle; the four discourses can be described as; “Poetics, Rhetoric, Dialectic, and Logic are sciences to different degrees, but they have the same nature: they are ways in which man uses words to influence his own mind or that of others. […]”(23) For Olavo, each of these sciences is fragile in these peace; poetics—the domain of the merely possible; rhetoric—the domain of the verisimilar; dialectic—the domain of the probable; and logic—the domain of the maximally certain; he also says that only two people have been noted so far, St. Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna.
With this, Olavo tries to explain the mediation between the person and the knowledge, especially the socially spread one, while creating an Aristotelian philosophy of culture (24) —which was also the original name of the book, Uma Filosofia Aristotélica da Cultura, before getting its new edition under the current name of Aristoteles em nova perspectiva: Introdução à teoria dos quatro discursos [Aristotle in a New Perspective: Introduction to the Theory of the Four Discourses]—and as noted by Ronald Robson in Conhecimento por Presença: Em torno da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho, he reintroduces an Aristotelic tradition that was on Arabic and Syria readings of Aristotle Poetics, with for example Avicenna as previously told, and also Abu-Bisr Matta (870–940 d. C.) that translated Poetics, also show by Alberto Rigolo in “Aristotle ‘Poetics’ in Syric and Arabic translations: readings of tragedy” (p. 146–7). (25)
Theory of the Empire
O Jardim das Aflições [The Garden of Aflictions] has one of his most famous political theories, the Theory of Empire, which could be roughly summarized as; “the history of the West, of all different kinds, is characterized by being a sequence of attempts to restore the political model of empire and its associated civil religion, which resides in this, its fundamental unity”. (26)
Having written it after attending a palestra at the University of São Paulo (USP) on Epicure by José Américo Motta Pessanha (1932–92), he was “shaken” by it and wrote most of this book that same night, and it was only published because Bruno Tolentino (1940–2007)—a close friend of Olavo’s at the time and an intellectual stimulus, who was also a poet and a poetaster—told him so.
He distinguished these great moments of historical salvation of the Empire, each one a translatio imperii (27): The Carolingian Empire (800–924), the Holy Roman Empire (962–1804), the National Empires (1139–1991) and the Colonial Empires (~1500–1975), and finally the Napoleonic and American Republican Empires (1808–1991), which are divided into four groups; I) Carolingian Empire, II) Holy Roman Empire, III) National and Colonial Empires, and IV) Napoleonic and American Republican Empires.
The last one was ready to be an Empire by birth with the Founding Fathers, who he said had created a Masonic government; however, it is not an institution controlled from the shadows, but “…it means the following: all the conflicts are open, all the political disputes are done in front of the public, which constitute the same pulsations of the democratic way, are not if not the exteriorization of divergences born and elaborated inside the Masonic”(28) and nature with the American imperial expansion or, as Robson said, “the ideas of the American Revolution have become the ideas of the world empire and, to a large extent, even of those who oppose the empire…” (29)
However, after he started living in the U.S. and saw the lifestyle of the interior areas and that Americans were not what the propaganda showed, his views on America changed and would later appear as the theory of lesser empires, which would be composed of (I) the Eurasian, (II) the Islamic, and (III) the Western (“sometimes mistakenly called “Anglo-American”), as Victor Bruno stated in his thesis, would be utilized in the debate against Aleksander Dugin.
More about his philosophy can be found in The Olavo de Carvalho Reader book and, especially, at the Olavo de Carvalho Academy, which could be described as his Seminário de Filosofia in English.
With all of this in mind, I hope that the English reader will be more interested in the works of Carvalho.
Works
(1980). A Imagem do Homem na Astrologia. São Paulo: Jvpiter.
(1983). O Crime da Madre Agnes ou A Confusão entre Espiritualidade e Psiquismo. São Paulo: Speculum.
(1983). Questões de Simbolismo Astrológico. São Paulo: Speculum.
(1983). Universalidade e Abstração e outros Estudos. São Paulo: Speculum.
(1985). Astros e Símbolos. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
(1986). Astrologia e Religião. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
(1986). Fronteiras da Tradição. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
(1992). Símbolos e Mitos no Filme “O Silêncio dos Inocentes”. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.
(1993). Os Gêneros Literários: Seus Fundamentos Metafísicos. Rio de Janeiro: IAL & Stella Caymmi.
(1993). O Caráter como Forma Pura da Personalidade. Rio de Janeiro: Astroscientia Editora.
(1994). A Nova Era e a Revolução Cultural:Fritjof Capra & Antonio Gramsci. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais & Stella Caymmi, São Paulo: Vide Editorial, 2014.
(1994). Uma Filosofia Aristotélica da Cultura. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.
(1996). Aristóteles em Nova Perspectiva: Introdução à Teoria dos Quatro Discursos, Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks,São Paulo: É Realizações, 2007; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2013.
(1995). O Jardim das Aflições:De Epicuro à Ressurreição de César, Ensaio sobre o Materialismo e a Religião Civil. Rio de Janeiro: Diadorim, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2000; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2015.
(1994). O Imbecil Coletivo:Atualidades Inculturais Brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2007; Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2018.
(1997). O Futuro do Pensamento Brasileiro: Estudos sobre o Nosso Lugar no Mundo. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora, É Realizações, 2007.
(1998). A Longa Marcha da Vaca Para o Brejo & Os Filhos da PUC: O Imbecil Coletivo II, Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2008; Campinas: Vide Editorial, 2019.
(2002–2006). Coleção História Essencial da Filosofia, 32 vol. São Paulo: É Realizações.
(2007). A Dialética Simbólica:Ensaios Reunidos, São Paulo: É Realizações; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2015.
(2011). Maquiavel, ou A Confusão Demoníaca. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2012). A Filosofia e seu Inverso. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2012). Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial: Um Debate entre Olavo de Carvalho e Aleksandr Dugin. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial. 2012. (with Aleksandr Dugin).[93]
(2013). O Mínimo que Você Precisa Saber para não Ser um Idiota. Edited by Felipe Moura Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Record.
(2013). Apoteose da vigarice. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2013). Visões de Descartes:entre o gênio mau e o espírito da verdade. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2014). O mundo como jamais funcionou:Cartas de um terráqueo ao planeta Brasil – Volume II. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2014). A Fórmula para Enlouquecer o Mundo: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 3. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2015). A Inversão Revolucionária em Ação: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 4. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2016). O Império Mundial da Burla: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 5. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2016). O Dever de Insultar: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 6. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2017). Breve Retrato do Brasil: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 7. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2018). Os Histéricos no Poder: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 8. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2019). A Longa Marcha da Vaca Para o Brejo: O que Restou do Imbecil, vol 1. Campinas, Sp: Vide Editorial.
(2019). O Progresso da Ignorancia: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 9.Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2019). A Cólera dos Imbecis: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 10. Capinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2020). O Imbecil Juvenil: O que Restou do Imbecil, vol 2. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2020). Edmund Husserls contra o psicologismo. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2020). Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guia Para o Estudo de sua obra. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2021). Introdução À Filosofia de Loius Lavelle. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2021). A Consciência de Imortalidade. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2021). O Leão e os Ossos: O que Restou do Imbecil, vol 3. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2021). Inteligência e Verdade: Ensaios de Filosofia. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2021). Diário Filosofico – Volume 1. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2022). O Saber e o Enigma: Introdução ao Estudo dos Esoterismo. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2023). O Irracional Superior – O que restou do imbecil – vol. IV Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2023). Aforismos: volume I Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2023). A morte do pato – O que restou do Imbecil – vol. V Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2023). A felicidade geral da nação – o que restou do Imbecil – vol. VICampiy, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2024). A vingança de Aristóteles: Uma introdução ao seu pensamento e atualidade, Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2024). O camarada Enrolevich – O que restou do Imbecil – vol. VII, Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
(2024). Seminarium: páginas de um diário filosófico. (Vol. I: 1979–1997), Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
Miscellaneous Publications
(1973). Tabu, by Alan Watts. São Paulo: Editora Três (translation and preface, with Fernando de Castro Ferreira).
(1981). A Metafísica Oriental, by René Guénon. São Paulo: Escola Júpiter (translation).
(1984). Comentários à “Metafísica Oriental” de René Guénon, by Michel Veber. São Paulo: Speculum (introduction and notes).
(1997). Como Vencer Um Debate Sem Precisar Ter Razão: em 38 estratagemas: dialética erística by Arthur Schopenhauer. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks (introduction, notes and explanatory comments); 2nd edition, 2003; Campinas SP, Auster, 2019.
(1997). O Espírito das Revoluções, by J.O. de Meira Penna. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora (preface).
(1998). O Exército na História do Brasil, 3 Vol. Rio de Janeiro/Salvador: Biblioteca do Exército & Fundação Odebrecht (editor).
(1998). Teatro Oficina: Onde a Arte não Dormia, by Ítala Nandi. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora (preface).
(1999). Ensaios Reunidos, 1942–1978, by Otto Maria Carpeaux. Rio de Janeiro: UniverCidade & Topbooks (introduction and notes).
(1999). A Sociedade de Confiança: ensaios sobre as origens e a natureza do desenvolvimento by Alain Peyrefitte. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks (introduction).
(1999). A Sociedade de Confiança: ensaios sobre as origens e a natureza do desenvolvimento by Alain Peyrefitte. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks (introduction).
(1999). Aristóteles, by Émile Boutroux. Rio de Janeiro: Record (introduction and notes). 2nd Edition,Campinas, Vide Editorial, 2024.
(2001). As Seis Doenças do Espírito Contemporâneo, by Constantin Noica. Rio de Janeiro: Record (introduction and notes).
(2001). Admirável Mundo Novo, by Aldous Huxley. São Paulo: Editora Globo (preface).
(2001). A Ilha, by Aldous Huxley. São Paulo: Editora Globo (preface).
(2001). A Coerência das Incertezas, by Paulo Mercadante. São Paulo: É Realizações (introduction and notes).
(2001). A Sabedoria das Leis Eternas, by Mário Ferreira dos Santos. São Paulo: É Realizações (introduction and notes).
(2002). A Origem da Linguagem, by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record (edition and notes, with Carlos Nougué), 2nd Edtion, Campinas, Kírion, 2021.
(2004). Escolha e Sobrevivência, by Ângelo Monteiro. São Paulo: É Realizações (preface).
(2008). O Eixo do Mal Latino-americano e a Nova Ordem Mundial, by Heitor de Paola. São Paulo: É Realizações (preface).
(2011). O Enigma Quântico, by Wolfgang Smith. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
(2014). Ponerologia: Psicopatas no Poder, by Andrzej Łobaczewski. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
(2015). A Tomada do Brasil, by Percival Puggina. Porto Alegre: Editora Concreta (preface).
(2015). Cabo Anselmo: Minha Verdade, by José Anselmo dos Santos. São Paulo: Matrix (preface).
(2017). 1964: O Elo Perdido; O Brasil nos Arquivos do Serviço Secreto Comunista, by Mauro “Abranches” Kraenski and Vladimir Petrilák. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial (preface).
(2019). A Vida Intelectual, by A.-D. Sertillanges. São Paulo: Kírion (preface).
(2019). Traição Americana: O Ataque Secreto aos Estados Unidos, by Diana West. São Paulo: Sophia Perennis (preface).
(2021). The Vertical Ascent: From Particles to the Tripartite Cosmos and Beyond by Wolfgang Smith. Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation. (preface)
Translated Works
(2000). “Otto Maria Carpeaux.” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies. Special Issue, No. 4. João Cezarde Castro Rocha (org.), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
(2005). “From Poetics to Logic: Exploring Some Neglected Aspects of Aristotle’s Organon,” in Handbook of the First World Congress and School on Universal Logic, UNILOG’05, ed. Jean-Yves Beziau and Alexandre Costa-Leite. Pp. 57–59.
(2016). Statele Unite și Noua Ordine Mondială: O Dezbatere între Olavo de Carvalho și Aleksandr Dughin. Translated by Simina Popa and Cristina Niţu. Bucharest: Editura Humanitas. Translation of Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial. (With Aleksandr Dughin)
(2021). Machiavelli or the Demonic Confusion. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Ashen Free Press.
(2022). Aristotle in a New Perspective: Introduction to the Theory of the Four Discourses. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Ashen Free Press.
References
1 Marques, Hugo. As mil faces de Olavo de Carvalho, guru do bolsonarismo. Veja. Avaliable at: https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/as-mil-faces-de-olavo-de-carvalho-guru-do-bolsonarismo/
2 Redação, Brasil Paralelo. Quem foi Olavo de Carvalho? Vida, opiniões políticas e pensamento do filósofo brasileiro. Avaliable at: https://www.brasilparalelo.com.br/artigos/quem-e-olavo-de-carvalho?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9PW13t3D9gIVCw2RCh1wSQHUEAMYASAAEgLuz_D_BwE
3 Marques, Hugo. As mil faces de Olavo de Carvalho, guru do bolsonarismo. Veja. Avaliable at: https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/as-mil-faces-de-olavo-de-carvalho-guru-do-bolsonarismo/
4 Fellet, João. Olavo de Carvalho, o ‘parteiro’ da nova direita que diz ter dado à luz flores e lacraias. Avaliable at: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-38282897
5 Redação, Brasil Paralelo. Quem foi Olavo de Carvalho? Vida, opiniões políticas e pensamento do filósofo brasileiro. Avaliable at: https://www.brasilparalelo.com.br/artigos/quem-e-olavo-de-carvalho?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9PW13t3D9gIVCw2RCh1wSQHUEAMYASAAEgLuz_D_BwE
6 González, Ana Maria Mendez. ESCOLA JÚPITER DE ASTROLOGIA, SEMENTE E CELEIRO. Avaliable at: https://historiastrologsp.blogspot.com/2020/01/escola-jupiter-de-astrologia-semente-e.html?m=1
7 Marques, Hugo. As mil faces de Olavo de Carvalho, guru do bolsonarismo. Veja. Avaliable at: https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/as-mil-faces-de-olavo-de-carvalho-guru-do-bolsonarismo/
8 Prof.Olavo Fala Sobre Sua Experiência na Tariqa do Frithjof Schuon. Avaliable at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UjuMWoJbQZw.
9 They are called respectively; “Estrutura e Sentido da Enciclopédia das Ciências Filosóficas de Mário Ferreira dos Santos and Leitura Analítica da ‘Crise da Filosofia Ocidental’ de Vladimir Solovio”, the first one can be found in the book “Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guia para o estudo de sua obra”, Vide. 2020.
10 A ENTREVISTA QUE A VEJA ESCONDEU – Parte 1. Avaliable at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo9yBrU411Q&pp=ygUgYSBlbnRyZXZpc3RhIHF1ZSBhIHZlamEgZXNjb25kZXU%3D Starting from 45:32
11 Borges, Antônio Fernando. Otto Maria Carpeaux, o digno farejador do Universo. Avaliable at: https://olavodecarvalho.org/otto-maria-carpeaux-o-digno-farejador-do-universo/
12 Redação, Brasil Paralelo. Quem foi Olavo de Carvalho? Vida, opiniões políticas e pensamento do filósofo brasileiro. Avaliable at: https://www.brasilparalelo.com.br/artigos/quem-e-olavo-de-carvalho?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9PW13t3D9gIVCw2RCh1wSQHUEAMYASAAEgLuz_D_BwE
13 It’s a certain irony that some people consider Olavo to be anti-Brazilian because he didn’t live in the country or because he criticized certain things about the culture. Well, if he was that openly anti-Brazilian, he would just stop publishing in Portuguese.
14 Redação, Brasil Paralelo. Quem foi Olavo de Carvalho? Vida, opiniões políticas e pensamento do filósofo brasileiro. Avaliable at: https://www.brasilparalelo.com.br/artigos/quem-e-olavo-de-carvalho?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9PW13t3D9gIVCw2RCh1wSQHUEAMYASAAEgLuz_D_BwE
15 Philosophy, Mysticism, and World Empires: Elements of the Philosophy of Olavo De Carvalho”. 2019. The Political Science Reviewer 43 (1): 22–24. https://politicalsciencereviewer.wisc.edu/index.php/psr/article/view/600.
16 ibied. Apud. “Bolsonaro, Saudi Prince Discussed Investment,” Brazil−Arab News Agency, July 1, 2019, https://anba.com.br/en/bolsonaro-saudi-prince-discussed-investment.
17 Redação. Altavista.news. Médico de Olavo de Carvalho conta qual foi a causa da morte. Avaliable at: https://altavista.news/medico-de-olavo-de-carvalho-conta-qual-foi-a-causa-da-morte/
18 Filosofia, Helkein. Compilado de Filósofos Brasileiros. Avaliable at: https://helkein.com.br/compilado-de-filosofos-brasileiros/ (italics in the original).
19 See, for example: https://olavodecarvalho.org/ser-e-conhecer/ Now, whether or not it’s the same thing or different, or even it could also be because the Seminário got mistaken or mixed with the COF, this requires further investigation.
20 Avaliable at: https://olavodecarvalho.org/o-seminario-de-filosofia/
21 He was born in Setúbal (Portugal) and graduated in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico. Has the professional course of photography by the Oficina da Imagem, is na amateur pianist and practices martial arts around 30 years, with teaching experience in the same. Has become a student of Olavo de Carvalho in 2009 with the beginning of the Curso Online de Filosofía. (Biography taken from the same book, p. 63).
22 Chainho, Mário et al. O Magistério de Olavo de Carvalho: para uma paidéia integral. Curitiba – PR, 2022. Danúbio, p. (27–37).
23 Brasil Paralelo, Redação. A Teoria dos Quatro Discursos de Aristóteles de acordo com Olavo de Carvalho. Avaliable at https://www.brasilparalelo.com.br/artigos/teoria-dos-quatro-discursos
24 Robson, Ronald. Elementos da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho. Avaliable at https://olavodecarvalho.org/elementos-da-filosofia-de-olavo-de-carvalho/
25 Robson, Ronald. Conhecimento por Presença: Em torno da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho. Vide Editorial. Campinas, 149-154 and note 203.
26 ibidem, 445.
27 Olavo calls translatio imperii “every single change in the axis of power in the West”, p. 271 or 258 depending on the Brazilian edtn.
28 Robson, Ronald. Conhecimento por Presença: Em torno da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho. Vide Editorial. Campinas, 455. Apud. O Jardim das Afições, 314.
29 ibid, p.456.
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