Destination: globalization. Shortcut: nationalism. Feature: warmth

Abstract

The text proposes the Brazilian cordiality as phármakon, an undecidable between friendship and enmity, consanguinity and affinity, gift and accumulation, familiarity and ferocity of the culture of Brazil in relation to world history. To the extent culturally situated a reservation, the test postulated the idea of a warmth that can be wagered in deficit times or be put forward as an index of participation -not a pertenencia- in the concert of nations claimed by globalization, a limit of thinking that it is also the threshold for other thoughts.