Celso Lafer

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Celso Lafer (born August 7, 1941 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian lawyer , author, university professor of legal philosophy , two-time Brazilian foreign minister and former minister of economics .

Life

Celso Lafer, son of the immigrant Abrahão Jacob Lafer, is of Jewish descent from Lithuania . He studied law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (FDUSP), and received his doctorate in political science from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (USA) in 1970 . In 1977 he was authorized to teach the subject of international public law and in 1988 he was appointed full professor of legal philosophy at the FDUSP in São Paulo.

He published on the political theorists Hannah Arendt and Norberto Bobbio , but also on Brazilian politics, e. B. with an analysis of the planning processes and the political system at the time of the five-year plan 1956–1961 of the Kubitschek era . Under the Kubitschek government, his uncle Horácio Lafer (1900–1965) was Brazilian foreign minister.

Political career

In 1992, Celso Lafer took over the post of Foreign Minister (Ministro das Relações Exteriores) for the Fernando Collor de Mello cabinet, succeeding Francisco Rezek ; Fernando Henrique Cardoso was his successor . Under his later government, he was Brazilian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1995 to 1998 , first Minister of State for Development, Industry and Economy (Ministro de Estado do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio) in 1999 and foreign minister again from 2001 to 2002.

Honors

In addition to a large number of domestic and foreign orders of merit, Celso Lafer received the Prêmio Jabuti literary prize in 1989 .

On June 1, 2004, he was elected a member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC), the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro .

Celso Lafer was admitted to the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature in Rio de Janeiro, on July 21, 2006 . He is the fifth owner of the seat number 14 named after Franklin Távora , succeeding Miguel Reale . Alongside José Murilo de Carvalho , he is one of the two Brazilians who are members of both academies.

On November 6, 2014, Lafer was also elected to the Academia Paulista de Letras . He was accepted into the academy on May 21, 2015. Lafer takes seat (Cadeira) No. 23 in the academy, which was previously held by entrepreneur Antônio Ermírio de Moraes .

Fonts

  • O Judeu em Gil Vicente. Conselho Estadual de Cultura, São Paulo 1963.
  • The Planning Process and the Political System in Brazil. A study of Kubitschek's target plan, 1956–1961. Cornell University, Latin American Studies Program, Ithaca, NY 1970. (Dissertation Series nº 16, June / 1970).
    • Brazilian edition: JK eo Programas de Metas (1956–1961). Processo de planejamento e sistema político no Brasil. Ed. FGV, Rio de Janeiro 2002.
  • O Sistema Político Brasileiro, Estrutura e Processo. Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo 1975.
  • Comércio e Relações Internacionais. Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo 1977.
  • Gil Vicente e Camoes. Ed. Ática, São Paulo 1978.
    • Spanish edition: El problema de los valores en "Los Lusíadas". Elementos para el estudio de la cultura portuguesa del siglo XVI. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1978.
  • Hannah Arendt. Pensamento, Persuasão e Poder. Paz e Terra, Rio de Janeiro 1979. (2nd edition 2003).
  • Hobbes, o Direito eo Estado Moderno. Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo, São Paulo 1980.
  • Ensaios sobre a Liberdade. Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo 1980.
  • Paradoxos e Possibilidades. Estudos sobre a Ordem Mundial e sobre a Política Exterior do Brasil num Sistema Internacional em Transformação. Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro 1982.
  • O Brasil ea Crise Mundial. Paz, Poder e Política Externa. Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo 1984.
  • A Reconstrução dos Direitos Humanos. To diálogo com o pensamento de Hannah Arendt. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 1988.
  • Ensaios liberais. Siciliano, São Paulo 1991.
  • Desafios - Ética e Política. Siciliano, São Paulo 1995, ISBN 85-267-0779-5 .
  • Comércio, Desarmamento, Direitos Humanos. Reflexões sobre uma experiência diplomática. Paz e Terra, São Paulo 1999, ISBN 85-219-0337-5 .
  • A Identidade Internacional do Brasil ea política externa brasileira. Passado, presente, futuro. Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo 2001, ISBN 85-273-0257-8 .
  • A Internacionalização dos Direitos Humanos. Constituição, Racismo e Relações Internacionais. Manole, Barueri, SP 2005, ISBN 85-204-2429-5 .

None of his works have yet been translated into German. A conference contribution: Celso Lafer: The relationship between Brazil and Germany in the context of the new international context. In: Inventory and perspectives of German-Brazilian relations. TFM, Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 115-120. ( Conference of the ADLAF working group Brazil. 1).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mauricio A. Font: Transforming Brazil. A Reform Era in Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland 2003, ISBN 0-8476-8356-7 , p. 114. ( Preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Celso Lafer ( Memento of November 27, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on the website of the Academia Brasileira de Ciências. Portuguese, accessed November 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ Celso Lafer é eleito para a vaga de Antonio Ermírio de Moraes na Academia Paulista de Letras ( Memento from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Celso Lafer toma posse na Academia Paulista de Letras
personal data
SURNAME Lafer, Celso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian lawyer, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo