Denis Lerrer Rosenfield

Denis Lerrer Rosenfield is a Brazilian writer and columnist. Along with Patrícia Carlos de Andrade, Rosenfield has co-founded the Millennium Institute in 2005.[3]

Denis Lerrer Rosenfield
Born (1950-11-21) November 21, 1950[1]
Porto Alegre, Brazil
SchoolHegelianism
Objectivism
InstitutionsNational Autonomous University of Mexico
Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Main interests
Political philosophy, democracy, politics, public affairs, politics, ethics[2]

Academic life

Rosenfield has a degree in philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and in 1982 he earned a doctorate in philosophy from Université Paris 1 .[1] In 1999, he obtained a post-doctorate at the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Fontenay/St Cloud).[4]

He is Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.[2]

Controversies

A defender of individual liberties[5] and of the right to private property,[6] Rosenfield has positioned himself against state interference in citizens' lives.[7] In an interview to Veja's magazine in 2011, he characterized ANVISA, a Brazilian government agency akin to the US' Food and Drug Administration, as "the great tutor of the Brazilian citizen, one who knows everything and to whom we owe blind obedience." According to Rosenfield, the ANVISA Agency was being run by "schizophrenics" whose sole purpose has been to meddle in the lives of the Brazilians.[8]

Rosenfield sees no problem in being called a "rightist", since it means "the defense of personal freedom, of the state and of the property rights."[8]

Selected publications
  • — (2007). Reflexões sobre o direito à propriedade. Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier Editora. p. 207.
  • — (2009). Liberdade de Escolha. Rio de Janeiro: Casa da Palavra Produção Editorial. p. 95.

References
  1. "Biografia" (in Portuguese). Universidade Falada. Archived from the original on 2013-04-08. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  2. "Denis Lerrer Rosenfield" (in Portuguese). UFRGS. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  3. Carlos Alberto Teixeira (2005-03-16). "Debate sobre a realidade nacional" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  4. "Curriculum Lattes" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  5. Denis Rosenfield (2012-05-13). "Liberdade às avessas" (in Portuguese). Instituto Millenium. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  6. Denis Rosenfield (2010-02-16). "A criação de quilombos" (in Portuguese). Instituto Millenium. Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  7. Prof. Dr. Sérgio Luís Boeira. "Resposta ao Denis Rosenfield sobre o tabagismo" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  8. "O estado não pode tudo" (in Portuguese). Veja. 2011-05-06. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
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