Ligações entre trajetórias intelectuais e políticas: o “caso Weffort”

Abstract

This article analyzes the process of choosing the Francisco Weffort (PT) as minister of culture under the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government (PSDB), which became a controversy in the political and cultural domains. The hypothesis arises that this fact was made possible by the points of contact between Weffort’s and FHC’s trajectories and, secondarily, PT and the PSDB. In order to answer (1), we used the processes of conformation of the intellectual and political resources of the agents and their spaces of sociabilities in order to identify moments of interactions between both and the constitution of shared visions on the socius; and for (2) it was analyzed what was foreseen as politics for the culture in the plans of government of the petista and psdbista candidacies in 1994.