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Error, Illusion, Madness

      Bento Prado Jr.

      Commentaries by

      Arley Ramos Moreno,

      Sérgio Cardoso, and

      Paulo Eduardo Arantes

      Translated by

      Marco Alexandre de Oliveira and Rodrigo Nunes

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      Originally published in Portuguese as Erro, ilusão, loucura. Copyright © Editora 34 Ltda./Heirs of Bento Prado Jr., 2018. Copyright © Arley Ramos Moreno, Sérgio Cardoso, and Paulo Eduardo Arantes, for their texts, 2018. Published by arrangement with Editora 34 Ltda. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Chapter 4, ‘The Plane of Immanence and Life’ by Bento Prado Júnior and translated by Michael B. Wrigley, was originally published in Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, edited by Jean Khalfa. English translation copyright © 2003 Continuum Publishing. Reprinted with permission of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.

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      Names: Prado Júnior, Bento., author. | Oliveira, Marco Alexandre de, translator. | Nunes, Rodrigo, translator. | Moreno, Arley Ramos, other.

      Title: Error, illusion, madness / Bento Prado Jr. ; commentaries by Arley Ramos Moreno, Sérgio Cardoso and Paulo Eduardo Arante ; translated by Marco Alexandre de Oliveira and Rodrigo Nunes.

      Description: English edition. | Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2021] | Series: Critical south | “Originally published in Portuguese as Erro, ilusão, loucura. Editora 34 Ltda./Heirs of Bento Prado Jr., 2018.” | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A key work on the nature and role of the subject by one of Brazil’s most important philosophers”-- Provided by publisher.

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      Subjects: LCSH: Philosophy, Brazilian--20th century. | Prado Júnior, Bento. | Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

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Dedication

       For my grandchildren, Sofia and Bentinho

Publisher’s Note

      Chapter 4 was translated by Michael B. Wrigley. It is reproduced here by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing. The Foreword was translated by Rodrigo Nunes. The remainder of the text was co-translated by Marco Alexandre de Oliveira and Rodrigo Nunes.

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      I got lost inside myself

      Because I was a maze

      And to feel myself these days

      Is to find I miss myself.

      I am neither myself nor another,

      I am something of a medium:

      A pillar on the bridge of tedium

      That goes from me to the Other.

      Mário