Olavo Luiz Pimentel de Carvalho (born 29 April 1947), also known as Olavo de Carvalho, is a Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy whose interests include historical philosophy, the history of revolutionary movements, the traditionalist school and comparative religion. He is known for his conservative and right-wing political stance, and for being a critic of the political Left.Olavo started his career as a journalist in several newspapers. He also acted as an astrologer. He taught political philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil, from 2001 to 2005. He moved to the United States, and works as an international correspondent. He writes a weekly column for the Brazilian newspaper Diário do Comércio and teaches philosophy in an online course to over 2,000 students. Carvalho has previously written for several other magazines and newspapers, such as Bravo!, Primeira Leitura, Claudia, O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo (where he starts to write in February 1977, with an article debut about The Magic Flute in the "Folhetim" literary supplement), Época and Zero Hora, and taught philosophy to a smaller circle of students while still living in Brazil. He introduced to Portuguese-speaking readers works of important philosophers of the 20th century, such as Eric Voegelin, Xavier Zubiri, Bernard Lonergan, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon. Wikipedia
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