The Excluded Third

The Excluded Third: Contribution to a Dialectical Anthropology is a wide-ranging study of the relationship between biology and the Humanities.

In this book, Fernando Haddad responds to the new forays from biology into the Humanities by pointing out the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics. He suggests an alternative approach which resumes the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism. Through this encounter, Haddad argues, dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from a different perspective, and the role of symbolic language within materialism is re-evaluated.

Fernando Haddad is Minister of Finance in Brazil and previously served as Minister of Education and then Mayor of São Paulo. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of São Paulo and is the author of Work and Language for the Renewal of Socialism (Azougue Editorial, 2004).