The history of ideas, putting together the perspectives of History,
Philosophy and Literary Studies, is the basis of CHC's main
project.
We question the meanings of representations and doctrines, considering
their historicity. One does not separate practice, images and
reasons, as they aren't a reflection of each other, but all
are involved in the definition of the meaning one is constructing.
We study political as well as religious, scientific, economic,
social, aesthetic and philosophical thought and practice, emphasizing
the modern, contemporary Portuguese space and its connection
with the Iberian, Brazilian and Latin-American space and the
study of the forms of expressing and transmitting ideas.