Through its Seminar on Culture and Contemporary Reality course, Escola da Cidade hosted professor Alfredo Bosi to discuss the notion of culture—or cultures. In the conversation, drawing on personal experiences that touch on various spatial encounters, the professor interrogates and exposes the multiple facets of the word culture.
Culture is linked to experience. Culture only truly exists when we live these specific experiences, when our daily life is reflected upon. So culture in a general sense would be reflected experience, a reflected life. Everything we do spontaneously, by biological inheritance or social fatality, and that is not the object of our reflection, falls short of culture. — Alfredo Bosi.
Alfredo Bosi holds a degree in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of São Paulo (1958) and a PhD in Italian Literature from the University of São Paulo (1964). He obtained his Habilitation in Italian Literature (1970) and is a Retired Full Professor and Professor Emeritus of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo.
This article was written by Romullo Baratto. The translation is powered by AI.
