Of Beauty and Architecture

He has a master's degree (FU-Berlin), doctorate (USP) and professorship (PUCCAMP) in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. He was a guest professor at the Universities of Rostock, UFRGS and the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP, and is currently a full professor of Aesthetics at the University of Brasília, coordinator of the Center for Aesthetics, Hermeneutics and Semiotics at FAU/UnB, president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He is the author of more than 40 books and 450 publications as an essayist, translator, fiction writer and poet.