A paixão e a escada. Philia para filosofar. do largo de São Francisco para o cerrado

Abstract

This memoir is my personal and academic narrative, a discursive metaphor for a way of thinking that begins in adolescence and transforms over the course of an intellectual and professional career. From my first degree, Biology, until I found myself with both feet planted in Philosophy, I narrate my memories through the history of encounters and philia. A staircase and a building in the center of Rio de Janeiro set the tone for this writing. Based on my teaching and research, I open this work by wandering through clippings and autobiographical portraits of a Brazilian philosopher. To begin with, I pay a kind of reverence to those who have preceded me as a woman and as a researcher. Now, these are my academic memoirs, and they deal with the trajectory of this carioca woman who was born in Tijuca and raised there. It's the story of a passion fueled by philia. A kind of otobiography, as Jacques Derrida thought. After all, in my clippings, what matters is giving another meaning to my biography and my signature. That's why, from the beginning of my degree, there was a close link between my experiences and my intellectual production. And, in the wake of Derrida, I point out that we can only artificially separate a text from its author's life. There is nothing disinterested in the experiences I accumulate. My memoir, therefore, aims to listen to the experiences of this teacher who is always in training, who wants to be a Brazilian philosopher. So, more than an otobiography, I am, as Conceição Evaristo calls it, writing experiences. It is my life that is written in experience, writing the world I face. Escrevivendo, then, documents my formation and journey until the second semester of 2024. It records important experiences and activities that have shaped my work as a teacher and researcher. The document is structured in five chapters, in addition to the Introduction and Preamble. The first, A Flâneuse in Search of Passion and Knowledge, recounts my journey from my earliest studies to graduating in Philosophy at IFCS-UFRJ. In this chapter, I also recount memories of my Master's and Doctorate. Chapter II, A New Home: A Philosopher in the Cerrado, tells my story at UFU, from 2008 to the present day. Chapter III, An Appendix or Other Places of Philia, talks about the meetings via NEAB and ANPOF and how it was worth dreaming about and falling in love with philosophy. Chapter IV, Epilogue: A Boat With Many Seas to Sail, presents itself as a closing of the text, without a conclusion, because there are still seas for this teacher and researcher to sail. Finally, Chapter V, in which I point out some of my bibliographical productions. All other academic and management production is proven in SEI and in the Lattes Curriculum; this Memoirl meets the requirements for promotion from the Associate Professor IV class to the Full Professor class in the Higher Education Career, as established by MEC Ordinance no. 98/2017, of October 3, 2013, and by Resolution no. 03/2017, of June 9, 2017, of the Board of Directors - Condir of the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU. No. 982, of October 3, 2013, and Resolution No. 03/2017, of June 9, 2017, of the Board of Directors - Condir of the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU, modified by Resolution SEI No. 05/2018, of August 22, 2018, of the Condir of UFU.