Tempos e espaços de formação na constituição da Universidade de São Paulo: uma incursão na história da instituição pelos relatos de Claude Lévi-Strauss

Abstract

In the initial period of operation of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters, in which the author/professor Claude Lévi-Strauss worked, classes were small and students from different courses could attend classes and seminars together, studying subjects in common, just as teachers could not they worked in a single course, but taught in several of them. There was an effort to create a connection between the different courses so that students did not have the impression of fragmented teaching, with everyone collaborating in the same “work of intellectual education”. The objective of this text is to learn about some of the times and spaces of formation in the initial years of the establishment of USP, above all, based on the impressions that the French professor and anthropologist left recorded in the books Tristes trópicos and De perto e de longe.