<p>Published in Portugal Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge.&nbsp;In the two essays compiled here Ideas out of place and National by subtraction the important literary critic Roberto Schwarz discusses a paradox experienced by Brazilian society as a malaise in which there is a sense of dislocation between ideas and place and between culture and society.</p>