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Crisis and the encyclopaedic project.

The paper discusses the manner in which the awareness of historical crisis, as it is conceptualised by Bento Caraça, an example of intervention marked by historical materialism, implies a globalising solution, which Caraça translates as the encyclopaedic project.
The intellectual's task includes selecting ideas of the present, assessing their future effectiveness and systematising them into another body.