Olavo de Carvalho

Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho
Born:	April, 29. 1947
Died:	January, 24. 2022
Works:	O mínimo que você precisa para não ser um idiota, O Jardim das Aflições, O Imbecil Coletivo
Notable ideas	The revolutionary mind, cognitive parallax, theory of the four speeches, trauma of the emergence of reason, twelve layers of personality, radical intuitionism, authorithy principle, acts without testimony, confession method, world of principles, knwledge by presence, triple intuition theory, cognitive paralaxe, metaphysical foundations of the literary genres, subject of history, theory of the empires, the seven steps of the philosophical techniques.

Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho, more commonly known as Olavo de Carvalho (Campinas April 29, 1947 - Richmond January 24, 2022), was a Brazilian philosopher, philosophy scholar, book author, political pundit and essayist. In his works, he discussed historical philosophy, the history of revolutionary movements, the traditionalist school, astrology, perennialism, comparative religion, psychology and philosophical anthropology.

Carvalho frequently denounced the “hegemony of the leftist thought” and “cultural Marxism” present in the Brazilian media and universities. He was influential to Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro - although Carvalho himself disputed this influence- , Bolsonaro's sons and some of his ministers whose appointment Carvalho suggested.

In 2007, his reflections on objectivity and truth were included in an article in the newspaper ABC Color. His online debate with Russian academic Alexsandr Duguin yielded the book 'The U.S.A. and the New World Order'. The Romanian liberal philosopher Horia-Roman Patapievici praised Olavo's eloquently stance and arguments in the debate, considering his response exceptional. Carvalho actively maintained an account on the now defunct social media Orkut, as well to accounts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

In 2019, he received the Ordem do Rio Branco, the highest honorific medal awarded by the Brazilian government to Brazilian citizens who deserve recognition for their lifetime achievements and cultural contributions.

Biography

Early Years

Olavo de Carvalho was the youngest son of the attorney Luiz Gonzaga de Carvalho and the housewife Nicéa Pimentel . His elder brother was Luiz Paulo Pimentel de Carvalho. From his birth until approximately 7 years old, Carvalho was bedridden and gravely ill with a tumor in his throat and intermittent spikes of fever that nearly caused his death at an early age. His childhood illness prevented him from regularly attending elementary school.

His father passed when he was 15 years old, and due to his father's premature death, he had to start working to support himself and his family. Shortly thereafter, he dropped off secondary school due to his dissatisfaction over the school curriculum and an environment that he perceived as devoid of intellectual stimuli.

From then on, Carvalho devoted himself to his intellectual "self-discovery" journey, and started educating himself on comparative religious studies, philosophy, logic, psychology, symbolism and astrology. He stated that his self-directed studies were of higher quality and more complete than any academic education available in the formal educational system. Starting in 1970, he attended the Pan-American School of Art in São Paulo to learn artistic drawing, while also taking classes on film production and direction.

Early Communist Activism

As a private citizen, Olavo de Carvalho opposed the Military dictatorship in Brazil (1968-1985) that resulted from the 1964 coup d'etat. In 1966, he wrote an article on this subject for the journal of the Academic Center of the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo. He was immediately contacted by Rui Falcão, an activist of the Brazilian Communist Party who would later become the main leader of the leftist Workers' Party (PT). The two then became friends and roommates. They both would regularly hang out with another important figure of the Brazilian left, the co-founder of PT, José Dirceu, future chief of staff of Brazil's future president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the most important of his cabinet members and presumed dolphin of Lula, until the Congress bribery scandal started shattering Lula's public image and political career, eventually leading him to prison under corruption charges. Carvalho's communist activism lasted only two years, from 1966 to 1968, although he remained an active oppositor of the military regime, even sheltering or helping to shelter friends and relatives that were being persecuted by the government secret services.

Astrology

Following his meeting with the argentinian psychiatrist Juan Alfredo César Müller (1927-1990), whom Carvalho regularly paid homage to and referred as one of his most important mentors , he became interested in astrology. The two men befriended and admired each other reciprocally, and in 1979 they founded the Jupiter School of Astrology at the Faculty of Psychology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where they both teached. Carvalho presented astrology as a 'fundamental discipline', claiming that 'those who have not seriously studied astrology know nothing about it' and 'are illiterate' on the subject as stated by Gilberto Calil, Professor of history at the State University of Western Paraná (Unioeste) in his article on Carvalho published by Le Monde Diplomatique. From 1979 to 1986, Carvalho wrote several books on symbolism, religious, and astrological topics.

Sufism

In 1985, before engaging in the Brazilian political debate, Olavo de Carvalho turned to Sufism and adhered to a tariqa linked to perennialist Frithjof Schuon, who was close to René Guénon . He broke up ties with Schuon and left the tariqa in 1987, rejoining Roman Catholicism shortly thereafter but stated that the experience was 'absolutely essential' to his formation. Throughout the next decades, however, Carvalho fiercely criticized the spread of Islam in Europe and the United States.

Professional Activities

Olavo de Carvalho was not yet 18 years old when he entered journalism, first as a layout designer and eventually as a writer. As a journalist, he collaborated with nearly all prestigious Brazilian newspapers and magazines, such as O Globo, Zero Hora, Época, among others, "on cultural subjects" . He attended Conpefil, the Center of Philosophical Research of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro for three years, under the mentorship of the letonian scholar and priest Stanislavs Ladusãns. His graduation thesis were on the 'Structure and Meaning' in Mário Ferreira dos Santos's Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences, and an analytical reading on the 'Crisis of Western Philosophy' by Vladimir Soloviov, but he not completed the course, leaving it shortly after the death of Ladusãns in 1993, therefore never achieving his formal academic title. Despite that, he went on to work as an scholar for different Brazilian universities, became a very active lecturer and his works are respected and enjoy high prestige among intellectuals like Wolfgang Smith, Aleksandr Dugin, José Osvaldo de Meira Penna, Bruno Tolentino, Ives Gandra Martins, Herberto Sales, Percival Puggina, Horia-Roman Patapievici, among others.

He wrote for Diário do Comércio, a newspaper owned by the Associação Comercial de São Paulo, the column "Mundo Real". His articles on this last subject are gathered in particular in his books O Imbecil Coletivo: Atualidades Inculturais Brasileiras '' ("The Collective Imbecile: Current Brazilian Inculturalities") and O Mínimo Que Você Precisa Saber Para Não Ser um Idiota, but mostly on the 10-Volume books series "Cartas de um Terráqueo Ao Planeta Brasil". Both 'The Imbecil' and 'The Mínimo' denounce the false academic prestige and the fallacies in the dominant intellectual and academic discourse; if they aroused criticism, they also found success with the press and the public: the first edition of O Imbecil Coletivo: Atualidades Inculturais Brasileiras, sold out in three weeks and the second edition in four days; the sales of "O Mínimo Que Você Precisa Saber Para Não Ser Um Idiota" exceeded, according to the publisher, more than 360,000 copies. In these compilations, he endeavors to show the intellectual limitation and false erudition of journalists and academics, which provoked a reaction of angry attacks on himself, says Martim Vasquez da Cunha .

Between 1999 and 2001, Carvalho was a professor at the private college UniverCidade, in Rio de Janeiro, and was also also in charge of its publishing house. In 1998, he launched his personal website to disseminate his analysis and essays, and collect monetary donations. In 2002, he founded the news website Mídia Sem Máscara (MSM, Unmasked Media), with the objective of fighting against the "leftist bias of the main Brazilian media" . The site was structured around a group of contributors and editors, mostly brazilians, but also presented translated articles by Jeffrey R. Nyquist, Julián Marías and other foreign conservative pundits. The MSM editorial board was formed by Olavo de Carvalho, Edson Camargo, Graça Salgueiro, Heitor de Paola, Percival Puggina, Nivaldo Cordeiro, Janer Cristaldo, Ipojuca Pontes and Carlos I.S. Azambuja, and the Executive Editor was Edson Camargo. Mídia Sem Máscara also kept a YouTube channel, with videos of interviews and conversations reuniting Carvalho and other MSM collaborators.

At the same time, he regularly wrote articles for the main brazilian newspapers and magazines. Although his participation was important to bring new ideas into the Brazilian cultural scene, as Wilson Espindola indicates, Carvalho also received death threats which partly motivated his self-exile in the United States in 2005.

Other Activities

Olavo de Carvalho was the editor of the first annotated edition of the complete works of the art and social author Otto Maria Carpeaux and the Brazilian philosopher Mário Ferreira dos Santos. He also edited the book "History of the Brazilian Armed Forces." Carvalho also translated, prefaced and published works by Aristotle, Kant, Schopenhauer and Machiavelli that had been out of print for many years in Brazil, thus reintroducing these philosophers into the local intellectual debate. He's also credited for introducing Eric Voegelin, Louis Lavelle, Leon Bloy, A.D. Sertillanges, Edmund Husserl, and many other brilliant, but mostly ignored or underestimated authors, into the Brazilian intellectual circles.

In 2005, he took the job as the international envoy for the Diario do Comercio, and relocated with his family to Richmond, VA in the United States. The following year, he started presenting his popular online radio talk show 'True Outspeak' in his native Portuguese, mostly talking about U.S. and Brazilian politics, and that aired weekly until 2013.

In 2009, he was the co-founder and president of the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government and Social Thought, a conservative think- tank in which he collaborated with Ted Baehr, Paul Gottfried, Judith Reisman, Alejandro Peña Esclusa, and Stephen Baskerville, among others.

Shortly thereafter, Carvalho obtained from the US Immigration Services the Exceptional Abilities visa, which granted him permanent residency in the United States.

Political Positions Against Cultural Hegemony

Olavo de Carvalho denounced communism, more particularly in its Gramscian form. Indeed, Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), co-founder of the Italian Communist Party, argued for a communist revolution through cultural hegemony. Carvalho explored the subject thoroughly in his book 'A Nova Era e a Revolução Cultural' ("The New Era And The Cultural Revolution", from 1994). According to Carvalho, the left dominated the Brazilian press and universities for several decades, in a strategy that followed the plans of the Italian Marxist idealogue. The aim, Gramsci said, was to create a "mental atmosphere" in which the population would become socialist without realizing it .

By the end of the 1990s, he opted for a mixture of economic liberalism, inspired among others, by the work 'Le Société de Confidence' by Alain Peyrefitte, whose publication in portuguese was prefaced by him, under the auspices of the Liberal Institute in 1999 , and by Ludwig von Mises. But such ideas were totally alien to Brazil, ruled mainly by the hegemonic left and center-left thought since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985.

"There was no strict conservative opposition at the time, Olavo de Carvalho invented it".

Says Gerald Brant, a Brazilian hedge fund executive close to the Bolsonaro family. In terms of influence, he compares Carvalho to William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of the magazine National Review and the first American conservative intellectual in mid 20th century. .

In an interview to Brian Winter, Carvalho defended individual freedoms and Christianity while vilifying in a combative way and in language laced with obscenities, globalization, Islam, communism and the left in general. Winter goes on to suggest that Carvalho's popularity stemmed less from what he argued than from what he opposed.

Even at the height of the leftist government popularity, in the late 2000s, when the Brazilian economy was booming and Lula enjoyed a particularly high approval rating, Carvalho never stopped attacking dominating cultural marxism in Brazil, which he saw as a threat to individual freedoms As the country imploded, with the eruption of the federal investigations on the Lula's administration corrupt activities (Operação Lava Jato), the impeachment of then Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff and, finally, the imprisonment of Lula for corruption, the ideas of the philosopher were recalled by a part of the population, under the mantra 'Olavo Tem Razão' (Olavo Is Right in a literal translation).

On the right

"It is portentous nonsense to place Nazism and fascism on the extreme right, so it is a matter of understanding that liberal democracy stands in the center, closer to socialism. On the contrary: liberal democracy is more radically opposed to socialism. This is the only true right hand. This, and even more, is the extreme right: the only one that assumes the sacrosanct compromise by which it will never forge agreements and partnerships with socialism. Nazism and fascism are not extreme right, for the simple reason that they belong to the right in any way: they are a strange center, the majority of the journey has been taken, they are the bloody entrance of Carnelevarian socialists »

Liberalism is an important part of the process of overthrowing the market solution to the Judeo-Christian heritage of civilization and the state based on law, with the help of capitalism. Conservatism of this kind is that politics which is constituted by an inseparable synthesis of the book market economy, parliamentary democracy, law and order, Judeo-Christian morality, and the institution of the supremacy of classical culture.

Olavo de Carvalho lived off the copyright of his works and his online philosophy conferences that he started in 2009, under the name Curso Online de Filosofia (COF) , and which reached the amazing number of 15,000 enrollees throughoutits existence. To the interested parties who wondered if they had the necessary background to be mentored by him, he answers:

"If you don't know anything, you are the ideal student". The essential function of philosophy is not to offer answers, but to ask questions"

Indeed, as Ricardo Musse sums it up, his main concern is the decline of thought; the essence of his work is the defense of the deep conscience of men against the tyranny of collective authority . In Olavo de Carvalho's views, the objectivity of knowledge and individual consciousness are linked and cannot depend on a limiting validation criteria that reduces it to an impersonal and uniform set of formulas intended for use by the university circles.

Philosophy

Olavo de Carvalho considered himself a Christian philosopher. The motto of his work can be described as "...a rebellion against the tyranny of the collective pretense authority over the individual consciousness." Accordingly, he distanced himself early on from the Brazilian academic and university establishment and repeatedly criticized both circles in his books (for example, "O Imbecil Coletivo" and "O Que Restou do Imbecil", in free translation: The Collective Imbecile and What's Left of the Imbecil). His philosophical work was based mainly on the philosophy of Aristotle and scholasticism. His book O Jardim das Aflições (The Garden of Afflictions) was very controversial in Brazil and found great success among the public - not as great as "The Imbecil" - but also received heavy criticism. Carvalho also distanced himself from what he considered the Marxist mainstream of modern Brazilian intellectuality and harshly criticized currents of thought such as liberation theology, cultural Marxism, and deconstructionism.

To Olavo de Carvalho, there is an indissoluble bond between the objectivity of knowledge and the autonomy of individual conscience, a bond that is lost from sight when the criterion of validity of knowledge is reduced to an impersonal and pre-set formula. Believing that the most solid shelter of the individual conscience against alienation and objectification is found in the ancient spiritual traditions - Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam -, Olavo de Carvalho tries to give a new interpretation of the symbols and rites of these traditions, making them the matrix of a philosophical and scientific strategy to solve the problems of today's culture. He developed a work that emphasises that true philosophy is nothing but the search of unity of knowledge in the unity of consciousness and vice versa. Some of his fundamental ideias, contributions, discoveries and rediscoveries are:

1. Metaphysic: Knowledge by Presence (the Truth of Reality),; Rotatory Perspective
2. Philosophy of Language: General Theory of the Four Discourses
3. Psychology: Quid Est? - What is psyche? Theory of the Twelve Layers of Personality
4. History and Philosophy of History: The Subject of History, The Garden of Afflictions (Theory of the Empire)
5. Philosophical Method: The Seven Steps of the Philosophical Technique
6. Philosophical Anthropology: Foundations - "To a philosophical anthropology"
7. The Revolutionary Mind
8. Trauma of Emergency of Reason

Olavo de Carvalho also wrote on other topics like Astrology, Law and Theology, among others.

Theory of the Empire

"Western political history might be easily summarized as the history of the struggles for the right of succeeding the Roman Empire. […] The Roman Empire seems to float over the Western mind like the ghost of an illustrious departed who refuses to die; of someone who, acting over the spirit of the living with a subconscious obsession, possesses their lives as if they were tools for his own resurrection".

When Rome fell, the West became an orphan of this super imperial power. By then Roman Catholicism had become the dominant religion in the West and had developed distinct characteristics from its Oriental counterpart. God and His Church floated without their armed hand, and from this political gap, in Carvalho’s view, emerges the successive efforts to fill Rome’s shoes and achieve the central status that the great Empire once had. Carvalho gives the name translatio imperii to this phenomenon after the medieval symbol for the transference of powers.

Carvalho distinguished five grand moments of historical empire rescue, being each one a translatio imperii: the Carolingian Empire (800-924), the Sacred Roman Empire (962-1804), the Napoleonic Empire (1804-1815) and the American Republic Empire (1808-1991).

Olavo de Carvalho does not offer a explicit definition of Empire, however it is possible to establish a very rigorous definition through his comments: "Empire is a political structure of roman origin which all concrete scope for action, which tends to subdue the plurality of others political structures to a single governing center, finds its foundation in the virtual division of the prerogative of command into spiritual authority and temporal power, spheres that can never be entirely reduced one to the other without the imperial reality itself becoming problematic".

After Carvalho started living in US, he says that "the US culture I knew was only that which is exported through American mainstream media and publishing market. That is to say, all I knew was the 'official' culture. So the idea that came to me was that of the Politically Correctness Empire, of an Empire created under Masonic inspiration, with the idea of neutralizing religious differences by means of a laicist state—a non-partisan state that, because of its non-partisanship nature, is able to solve these differences. [ … ] However, when I moved to the US, I began to realize that there is an entire local culture that is not exported to the world and, notwithstanding its local vigor, has no voice in the world and thus is practically unknown of abroad. Here I refer to the American conservative and Christian culture, which, to my great surprise, is much more vigorous than I could have foreseen."

That would lead, according to academic Victor Bruno, to the "Theory of Lesser Empires" which is the view shown in Carvalho's debate against Aleksandr Dugin, and above all, Carvalho grounds the "Theory of the Lesser Empires" in a different methodology from that of traditional geopolitics, which he finds archaic and faulty.

In Carvalho’s view, a historical agent must fulfill three requirements: (1) It must “nurture permanent or long-term objectives”;(2) “Be capable of continuing the pursuit of these objectives beyond the lifespan of its individual agents, beyond the duration of the present state of affairs, and beyond the duration of even the states, nations and empires involved”; and (3) “Be capable, therefore, of reproducing individual agents able to continue the action through the centuries and to adapt the original plans to the different situations that may emerge without losing view of the initial goals.”. This narrows the spectrum down to five “entities,” as he refers to them. They are (1) the great universal religions, (2) initiatory and esoteric organizations, (3) royal and noble dynasties and similar entities, (4) ideologically revolutionary movements and parties, and (5) spiritual agents: God, angels, and demons.

Carvalho identifies three projects of global dominance, (1) the Eurasian, (2) the Islamic, and (3) the Western (“sometimes mistakenly called “Anglo-American”). These three projects reveal themselves as crystallizations almost pure of the fundamental ways of exercising power: financial power- caste of merchants, military power -the warrior caste and the spiritual power - the priestly caste.

These three agents of global magnitude benefit themselves of all that, which is different from the fact that its action is perceived as something more or less natural, concealing the existence of a strategic planning, which obviously is not capable of controlling all the fundamental processes of the dynamics of power, but aims to ensure at least the convenient functioning of some of its central axes.

The Theory of Four Discourses

"Human speech is a unique power, which is actualized in four diverse ways: the poetic, the rhetorical, the dialectical, and the analytical (logical)."

On his book 'Aristoteles Sob Nova Perspectiva: Introdução Aos Quatro Discursos', Olavo comments on the medullar idea that is the key in understanding Aristotle, the Four Discourses Theory, is divided in four parts: poetics - domain of the merely possible; rhetoric - domain of the verisimilar; dialectic - domain of the probable; and logic - domain of the maximally certain; he says only two people noted so far , he discovered this reading: Poetics and Rhetoric alongside the Organon.

It embraces the four different types of language the human discourse has of four different ways of discoursing using differents intentions, he also explains that the same theory can be used as a model for describing the historical-cultural evolution of civilizations: it is the principle of succession of dominant discourses.

In his work Uma Filosofia Aristotélica da Cultura., the author of the original model of Aristotle's logic offers an interpretation of the texts in which the existence of common principles between poetry, rhetoric, dialectic and logic, through which a unified knowledge of speech can be understood and around which various interdisciplinary questions can be answered. And because of his other book Aristoteles em nova perspectiva: Introdução à teoria dos quatro discursos study a theory of argumentation is counted among the restorers, while by his critical preface, annotations, commentaries and conclusions in Arthur Schopenhauer's unfinished work Dialetica Eristica or The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument said that it is not only a study of the method of Arthur Schopenhauer, but also an introduction to his system and dialectical studies in general.

Theory Of The Twelve Layers of Personality

"The layer is the synthesis of the personality, so each passage from layer to layer is a change of the whole personality, that is, the whole acquires a new form without changing its parts. For each of these changes, it changes as a whole, and the whole can only change in relation to something, and that something cannot be its own parts, therefore it has to be in relation to something internal to it, in this case, external to the personality, and in and in relation to which the personality will assume different positions in the course of life. Therefore, the respective value therefore, the respective value of the parts begins to change, and there has to be something that changes the various independent traits, without changing the basic structure in a way, because the basic structure has to stay intact, as if it were a machine that, remaining the same, is used for various purposes".

The layers are: Layer 1 (Character Integrative Layer. Astro Characterology), Layer 2 (Heredity, constitution, temperament, drive structure), Layer 3 (Cognition, perception), Layer 4 (Pulsional and affective history Divisive Layer), Layer 5 (Ego, self-consciousness and individuation), Layer 6 (Aptitude and purpose), Layer 7 (Social Situations and Roles), Layer 8 (Individual Overview), Layer 9 (Intellectual Personality), Layer 10 (Transcendental Self), Layer11 (Character), Layer 12 (Final destination), they are also organized in the following order: Astro Characterology; Psychology of destiny; Learning; Inner Affect; Self-determination of the Ego; Achievement of skills; Social role; Me before Death; Intellectual Life; Moral Life; Historical self; Me before God.

Olavo also considered certain layers to be either integrative or divisives. Integrative Layers (1 - 2 - 5 - 6 - 8 – 11) close the personality into a defined picture, meanwhile Divise Layers (3 - 4 - 7 - 9 - 10 - 12) open the personality to the ingress of external influences, breaking the previous equilibrium and triggering the struggle for a new and higher integration of the personality.

These layers can be understood as levels of learning about yourself and the world around you, so each level is reached as life goes by, the set of directives of the next layer is absolutely inapprehensible, not least because all signals from this layer will be interpreted in light of the current layer.

One of the most important points of this theory is suffering - the following layers absorb the goals and sufferings of the previous ones- . The aspect about which a person suffers would indicate in which layer he is. At first glance it seems somewhat shallow, but it is through suffering that a person defines his or hers worldview. This is reminiscent of the factors and vectors of development: the former, however dispersed they may seem, are interconnected by a main issue, which is the lesson to be learned, the vector.

The divorce between science and philosophy

As an expert in the use of philosophy, Olavo strives to carefully consider the epistemological foundations of subjects as diverse as economics, psychology, linguistics, civility, and the rest, assessing that not infrequently rational explanations of being do not notice the unity and universality of experience and its understanding, and because even if science can provide answers, the inquiry still arose in the field of philosophy. Nevertheless, in this way, regarding the separation of science and philosophy , in the last decades a new approach has been established between them. This separation was nothing but an intermediate phase, the explanation of which can be found in the beginnings of certain sciences.

The Seven Steps Of The Philosophical Technique

To Carvalho, a philosopher is not limited to just reading and understanding text - as previously mentioned before - he also not limited to producing something with contrary intuitions to his will and truth itself - like a poet - because he is directed by a philosophical technique that is based on seven steps (or the Seven Steps Of The Philosophical Technique), which are:

1. Anamnese, by which the philosopher tracks the origin of his ideias and assume responsibility by them.
2. Meditation, by which he searches transcend the circle of his ideias and allows that reality tells him, in a original cognitive experience.
3. Dialectic Exame, by which he integrates his cognitive experience in the philosophical tradition, and this on that.
4. Historical-philological search, by which ha takes hold of the tradition.
5. Hermeneutics, by which he becomes transparent by the dialectic exam the sentences of the past philosophers and all of the elements of cultural heritage that are necessary to his philosophical activity.
6. Conscious Exame by which he integrates in his total personality the acquisitions of his philosophical investigation.
7. Expressive technique by which the philosopher makes its cognitive experiencia reproductible by other persons.

Later Years and Death

In the spring of 2018, Olavo de Carvalho had an emergency surgery to remove a throat tumor, and shortly thereafter, he needed another surgery, this time to remove benign tumors from his bladder. By then, Carvalho was also suffering from chronic enfisema and cardiac disease. Due to a very resistant bacterial urinary tract infection, he left the USA in late 2021 for a medical treatment at the InCor Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. After two months receiving medical care in his native country, he returned to the USA, announcing his recovery from the bacterial infection and the plans for his last and most ambitious project, the writing of a volume series detailing The History of the Western Philosophy. Soon after this announcement, however, Carvalho fell ill again and returned to the hospital in Richmond.

Olavo de Carvalho's family announced his death on the evening of January 24 2022. He was 74 years old. His physician stated that the cause of his death was a cardiac and respiratory failure caused by enfisema, cardiac disease and sepsis. He was buried the next day at the St. Joseph Cemetery, in the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia.

He left behind his widow Roxane, eight children and eighteen grandchildren.

Movie

The filmmaker Josias Teófilo, directed a film that addresses the domestic life, biography and worldview of Olavo de Carvalho, shot at his residence in Colonial Heights (Virginia), EUA. The feature film "O Jardim das Aflições", title taken from one of his books, features the production of Matheus Bazzo and photography direction by Daniel Aragão. The film was entirely made with funds raised through collective financing and launched in 2017. Altogether, there were almost three thousand donors and a collection of 320,000 reais. At the Festival Cine PE, held from June 27 to July 3, 2017, "Jardim das Aflições" was awarded in three categories: best montage, popular jury and best film.

Works

Essays

• (1980). A Imagem do Homem na Astrologia. São Paulo: Jvpiter.
• (1983). O Crime da Madre Agnes ou A Confusão entre Espiritualidade e Psiquismo. São Paulo: Speculum.
• (1983). Questões de Simbolismo Astrológico. São Paulo: Speculum.
• (1983). Universalidade e Abstração e outros Estudos. São Paulo: Speculum.
• (1985). Astros e Símbolos. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
• (1986). Astrologia e Religião. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
• (1986). Fronteiras da Tradição. São Paulo: Nova Stella.
• (1992). Símbolos e Mitos no Filme "O Silêncio dos Inocentes". Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.
• (1993). Os Gêneros Literários: Seus Fundamentos Metafísicos. Rio de Janeiro: IAL & Stella Caymmi.
• (1993). O Caráter como Forma Pura da Personalidade. Rio de Janeiro: Astroscientia Editora.
• (1994). A Nova Era e a Revolução Cultural:Fritjof Capra & Antonio Gramsci. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais & Stella Caymmi, São Paulo: Vide Editorial, 2014].
• (1994). Uma Filosofia Aristotélica da Cultura. Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Artes Liberais.
• (1996). Aristóteles em Nova Perspectiva: Introdução à Teoria dos Quatro Discursos, Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks,São Paulo: É Realizações, 2007; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2013.
• (1995). O Jardim das Aflições:De Epicuro à Ressurreição de César, Ensaio sobre o Materialismo e a Religião Civil. Rio de Janeiro: Diadorim, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2000; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2015].
• (1994). O Imbecil Coletivo:Atualidades Inculturais Brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2007; Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2018.
• (1997). O Futuro do Pensamento Brasileiro: Estudos sobre o Nosso Lugar no Mundo. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora, É Realizações, 2007.
• (1998). A Longa Marcha da Vaca Para o Brejo & Os Filhos da PUC: O Imbecil Coletivo II, Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, São Paulo: É Realizações, 2008; Campinas: Vide Editorial, 2019.
• (2002–2006). Coleção História Essencial da Filosofia, 32 vol. São Paulo: É Realizações.
• (2007). A Dialética Simbólica:Ensaios Reunidos, São Paulo: É Realizações; Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial, 2015.
• (2011). Maquiavel, ou A Confusão Demoníaca. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2012). A Filosofia e seu Inverso. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2012). Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial: Um Debate entre Olavo de Carvalho e Aleksandr Dugin. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial. 2012. (with Aleksandr Dugin).
• (2013). O Mínimo que Você Precisa Saber para não Ser um Idiota. Edited by Felipe Moura Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Record.
• (2013). Apoteose da vigarice. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2013). Visões de Descartes:entre o gênio mau e o espírito da verdade. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2014). O mundo como jamais funcionou:Cartas de um terráqueo ao planeta Brasil - Volume II. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2014). A Fórmula para Enlouquecer o Mundo: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 3. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2015). A Inversão Revolucionária em Ação: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 4. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2016). O Império Mundial da Burla: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 5. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2016). O Dever de Insultar: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 6. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2017). Breve Retrato do Brasil: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 7. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2018). Os Histéricos no Poder: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 8. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2019). A Longa Marcha da Vaca Para o Brejo: O que Restou do Imbecil, vol 1. Campinas, Sp: Vide Editorial
• (2019). O Progresso da Ignorancia: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 9.Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2019). A Cólera dos Imbecis: Cartas de um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil, vol. 10. Capinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2020). O Imbecil Juvenil: O que Restou do Imbecil, vol 2. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2020). Edmund Husserls contra o psicologismo. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2020). Mário Ferreira dos Santos: Guia Para o Estudo de sua obra. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2021). Introdução À Filosofia de Loius Lavelle. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2021). A Consciência de Imortalidade. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2021). O Leão e os Ossos: O que Restou do Imbecil, vol 3. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2021). Inteligência e Verdade: Ensaios de Filosofia. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2021). Diário Filosofico - Volume 1. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.

Posthumous Publications

• (2022). O Saber e o Enigma: Introdução ao Estudo dos Esoterismo. Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2023). O Irracional Superior - O que restou do imbecil - vol. IV Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2023). Aforismos: volume I Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2023). A morte do pato - O que restou do Imbecil - vol. V Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2023). A felicidade geral da nação - o que restou do Imbecil - vol. VICampiy, SP: Vide Editorial.

• (2024). A vingança de Aristóteles: Uma introdução ao seu pensamento e atualidade, Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.
• (2024). O camarada Enrolevich - O que restou do Imbecil - vol. VII, Campinas, SP: Vide Editorial.

Other Publications

• (1973). Tabu, by Alan Watts. São Paulo: Editora Três (translation and preface, with Fernando de Castro Ferreira).
• (1981). A Metafísica Oriental, by René Guénon. São Paulo: Escola Júpiter (translation).
• (1984). Comentários à “Metafísica Oriental” de René Guénon, by Michel Veber. São Paulo: Speculum (introduction and notes).
• (1997). Como Vencer Um Debate Sem Precisar Ter Razão: em 38 estratagemas: dialética erística by Arthur Schopenhauer. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks (introduction, notes and explanatory comments); 2nd edition, 2003; Campinas SP, Auster, 2019.
• (1997). O Espírito das Revoluções, by J.O. de Meira Penna. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora (preface).
• (1998). O Exército na História do Brasil, 3 Vol. Rio de Janeiro/Salvador: Biblioteca do Exército & Fundação Odebrecht (editor).
• (1998). Teatro Oficina: Onde a Arte não Dormia, by Ítala Nandi. Rio de Janeiro: Faculdade da Cidade Editora (preface).
• (1999). Ensaios Reunidos, 1942–1978, by Otto Maria Carpeaux. Rio de Janeiro: UniverCidade & Topbooks (introduction and notes).
• (1999). A Sociedade de Confiança: ensaios sobre as origens e a natureza do desenvolvimento by Alain Peyrefitte. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks (introduction).
• (1999). Aristóteles, by Émile Boutroux. Rio de Janeiro: Record (introduction and notes). 2nd Edition,Campinas, Vide Editorial, 2024.
• (2001). As Seis Doenças do Espírito Contemporâneo, by Constantin Noica. Rio de Janeiro: Record (introduction and notes).
• (2001). Admirável Mundo Novo, by Aldous Huxley. São Paulo: Editora Globo (preface).
• (2001). A Ilha, by Aldous Huxley. São Paulo: Editora Globo (preface).
• (2001). A Coerência das Incertezas, by Paulo Mercadante. São Paulo: É Realizações (introduction and notes).
• (2001). A Sabedoria das Leis Eternas, by Mário Ferreira dos Santos. São Paulo: É Realizações (introduction and notes).
• (2002). A Origem da Linguagem, by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record (edition and notes, with Carlos Nougué), 2nd Edtion, Campinas, Kírion, 2021.
• (2004). Escolha e Sobrevivência, by Ângelo Monteiro. São Paulo: É Realizações (preface).
• (2008). O Eixo do Mal Latino-americano e a Nova Ordem Mundial, by Heitor de Paola. São Paulo: É Realizações (preface).
• (2011). O Enigma Quântico, by Wolfgang Smith. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
• (2014). Ponerologia: Psicopatas no Poder, by Andrzej Łobaczewski. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
• (2015). A Tomada do Brasil, by Percival Puggina. Porto Alegre: Editora Concreta (preface).
• (2015). Cabo Anselmo: Minha Verdade, by José Anselmo dos Santos. São Paulo: Matrix (preface).
• (2017). 1964: O Elo Perdido; O Brasil nos Arquivos do Serviço Secreto Comunista, by Mauro "Abranches" Kraenski and Vladimir Petrilák. Campinas, SP: VIDE Editorial (preface).
• (2019). A Vida Intelectual, by A.-D. Sertillanges. São Paulo: Kírion (preface).
• (2019). Traição Americana: O Ataque Secreto aos Estados Unidos, by Diana West. São Paulo: Sophia Perennis (preface).
• (2021). The Vertical Ascent: From Particles to the Tripartite Cosmos and Beyond by Wolfgang Smith. Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation. (preface)

Translated Works

• (2000). "Otto Maria Carpeaux." Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies. Special Issue, No. 4. João Cezarde Castro Rocha (org.), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
• (2005). "From Poetics to Logic: Exploring Some Neglected Aspects of Aristotle's Organon," in Handbook of the First World Congress and School on Universal Logic, UNILOG'05, ed. Jean-Yves Beziau and Alexandre Costa-Leite. pp. 57–59.
• (2016). Statele Unite și Noua Ordine Mondială: O Dezbatere între Olavo de Carvalho și Aleksandr Dughin. Translated by Simina Popa and Cristina Niţu. Bucharest: Editura Humanitas. Translation of Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial. (With Aleksandr Dughin)
• (2021). Machiavelli or the Demonic Confusion. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Ashen Free Press.
• (2022). Aristotle in a New Perspective: Introduction to the Theory of the Four Discourses. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Ashen Free Press.

Some Analyses and Critiques on Olavo de Carvalho's Work

• (2013) Elementos da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho, Ronald Robson. Ad Hominem
• (2020) Crença sem Corpo: Levando Olavo ao L'Abri, Lucio Antônio de Oliveira. Instituto Aletheia.
• (2020) Conhecimento por presença: em torno da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho, Ronald Robson. Vide Editorial. (Also includes Elementos da filosofia de Olavo de Carvalho in its Appendices).
• (2023). O Magistério de Olavo de Carvalho: Para uma paidéia integral, Mário Chainho, et al. Campinas: SP: Danúbio Editora.
• (2023). Cours de philosophie par Olavo de Carvalho.: une conversion des concepts généraux en expérience existentielle effective, Antoine Bachelin Sena.
• (2023). Olavo de Carvalho: A Pedagogia Da Autoeducação No Seminário de Filosofia, Nívia Lanznaster.