Uma Digestão Crítica do Método Antropofágico de Oswald de Andrade

Abstract

This article aims to outline Oswald's way of doing philosophy, in an elucidation of what we call the anthropophagic method. To do this, we analyze the development of anthropophagic philosophy, which is present in notes, chronicles, essays and, above all, in the thesis The Crisis of Messianic Philosophy. In the course of interpreting various texts, we identified the principles of the method, in its synthetic, typical and humorous argumentation. Finally, we clarify how the anthropophagic method was one of the procedures capable of making possible a philosophy that was consistent with the demands of the culture experienced by its author, by going beyond the limits of a philosophy at the service of the current state of affairs, in its rebellion, decoloniality and utopia, according to the need for expression of the humanity that constitutes it.