Mauricio Tragtenberg (city of Getulio Vargas, November 4, 1929 - São Paulo, November 17, 1998) was a sociologist and professor.
BIOGRAPHY
Tragtenberg was born in Minas Gerais, the Brazilian state, and moved to São Paulo, where he began his political activities, and later academic. As he had not completed the regular school and his university entrance was through the production of test planning - Challenge of the twentieth century, which was later turned into a book. With the acceptance of the text by the University, is qualified to provide the entrance exam. Okay, you get to attend the course of Social Sciences. A year later paid back entrance exam - this time for the course of history, he said. During the military dictatorship wrote his doctoral thesis in Politics, also from USP. And he began to devote himself to teaching career, teaching at undergraduate and graduate universities such as PUC-SP, USP, UNICAMP and "Getulio Vargas Fundation" (FGV).
In academia, Tragtenberg became known as a self-taught. He called himself "a kind of anarchistic Marxist". Irreverent with respect to the symbols and the antics of the authoritarian power, was an independent and critical intellectual in relation to the academic bureaucracy, he despised.
Chain smoker, his classes were attended not only by regular students but also by many not registered listeners. For his rebellious spirit and sense of often sarcastic humor, but above all by his profound generosity intelectual.A compulsion by the written word plus the facility to store names and quotations, made him be remembered for an encyclopedic knowledge.
PUBLICATIONS
Left at least eight published books and numerous articles in newspapers and general circulation magazines in the country, covering a range of issues such as education, politics, sociology, history and administration.
He wrote for several years in the column to stop the newspaper Popular News, a popular tabloid São Paulo.
His complete works including books, articles, presentations, prefaces and sparse text is being published by Editora UNESP, has been published four volumes of the collection Maurice Tragtenberg - led by Evaldo Amaro Vieira: Administration, Power and Ideology, On education, politics and unionism "Bureaucracy and Ideology" and the more recent the Russian Revolution.
BOOKS
- Planificação: Desafio do século XX, de 1967
- Burocracia e ideologia, de 1974
- Administração, poder e ideologia, de 1980
- Reflexões sobre o Socialismo, de 1986
- A Revolução Russa, de 1988
- Memórias de um autodidata no Brasil, 1999
