José Guilherme Merquior

José Guilherme Merquior (1941–1991) was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic, and philosopher who trained in law and philosophy, studied literature at the Sorbonne, and earned a doctorate in sociology from the London School of Economics.[1][2][4] He was a prolific author of around 22 books on topics including French thought, structuralism, Foucault, and liberalism, and participated in Claude Lévi-Strauss's seminar at the Collège de France.[1][2][4] Merquior died of cancer in January 1991.[1][3]