“O homem certo para a faculdade incerta”: projetos de reforma intelectual, uma trajetória singular e experimentos sociológicos de Florestan Fernandes

Abstract

This article aims at situating the figure and academic itinerary of Florestan Fernandes from a generational, institutional and professional perspective. It analyses how his ideas and proposals match, in a greater or lesser degree, to his historical context and the actual possibilities of interventions in reality. Thus, here are examined the ambivalences of USP's original project, Florestan’s unique trajectory within the university and the gradual conception of an intellectual standard of scientific work.