Quando o carnaval chegou: ativismo político no anverso histórico do Homo ludens||When carnival started: political activism in the historic obverse of Homo ludens||When carnival started: political activism in the historic obverse of Homo ludens

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O debate filosófico sobre a pertinência da categoria hegelo-marxista da alienação, em terras brasileiras, não se contém no âmbito estritamente conceitual, revelando-se de maneira significativa sua dimensão fática. O filósofo Vilém Flusser, por exemplo, valeu-se dos atributos sócio-históricos da sociedade brasileira para tecer uma crítica ao con­ceito de alienação e, assim, justificar a sua tese de que há no marxismo hegeliano um universalismo que não contempla realidades como a do Brasil. Este artigo se propõe a reavaliar o diagnóstico apresen­tado por Flusser, de modo a infirmar, a partir de um estudo de caso centrado na greve dos garis de 2014 no Rio de Janeiro, a generalização de que o brasilei­ro seria o Homo ludens, cuja realidade se manifesta na alienação. Sugere-se, assim, uma interpretação alternativa para a relação entre o lúdico e o político no Brasil e, por via oblíqua, a reabilitação da noção hegeliana de alienação em face da crítica fenomeno­lógica que Flusser lhe confere. ||Philosophy’s debate over the hegel-marxian concept of alienation in Brazil trespasses the border of a merely conceptual issue, and reveals a relevant factual dimension. The philosopher Vilém Flusser, for example, took the social-historical features of Brazilian society in order to depict a critique against the category “alie­nation” and therefore warrant the conclusion that hegel-marxism is embedded in an universalism that does not match specific realities, such as the Brazi­lian. This article is aimed at reevaluate this Flusser’s diagnosis by the means of a case-study focused on the sweepers’ strikes that took place in Rio de Ja­neiro in 2014. We argue that the generalization of Brazilian as the Homo ludens, whose reality occurs in alienation, does not match the historical events we discuss. It is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the “playful” and the “poli­tical”, and thus we obliquely rehabilitate Hegel’s no­tion of alienation from Flusser’s phenomenological critique.||Philosophy’s debate over the hegel-marxian concept of alienation in Brazil trespasses the border of a merely conceptual issue, and reveals a relevant factual dimension. The philosopher Vilém Flusser, for example, took the social-historical features of Brazilian society in order to depict a critique against the category “alie­nation” and therefore warrant the conclusion that hegel-marxism is embedded in an universalism that does not match specific realities, such as the Brazi­lian. This article is aimed at reevaluate this Flusser’s diagnosis by the means of a case-study focused on the sweepers’ strikes that took place in Rio de Ja­neiro in 2014. We argue that the generalization of Brazilian as the Homo ludens, whose reality occurs in alienation, does not match the historical events we discuss. It is suggested an alternative interpretation for the relation between the “playful” and the “poli­tical”, and thus we obliquely rehabilitate Hegel’s no­tion of alienation from Flusser’s phenomenological critique.