Cultura e política em Schwarz: a dialética como forma de intervenção e o impacto no movimento teatral brasileiro

Abstract

This article analyzes how Roberto Schwarz's dialectical reflection, by articulating the spheres of culture and politics, influenced the debate of cultural  workers, with an emphasis on the Brazilian theater movement, setting issues for debate and opening new perspectivesfor research. The essays “Culture and  Politics, 1964-1969”, “Politics and Culture: Support for a PT Platform in 1982” and “Highs and Lows of Brecht's Current Times” stand out. The influence of  Anatol Rosenfeld, through the scope of his theoretical production and the form of intervention in the debate of the theater environment, is highlighted, based on Schwarz's texts about the master. The article suggests that Schwarz's attention to Rosenfeld is in the order of learning, as is the case with Antônio Candido, from the perspective of an organic and consequential action, in  constant dialogue with groups of intellectuals and artists, in a combative stance against fascism, and in direct confrontation with the 1964 coup. The emblematic impact of Schwarz's dialectical critique on later research in the Brazilian theaterfield is highlighted. The adherence to and interest in Schwarz's thought by the Landless Workers' Movement, here considered as a movement Fighting for land, for human rights and as a cultural movement, is also considered.