Abstract
This paper aims to discuss, as the title shows, the experience of intensity attributed to the year 1968 and the State violence contained in the laws of Higher Education which were implanted in Brazil during the dictatorship period (1964-1985). Therefore, the text presents four axes: a) some reflections on the meanings of the intensity in 1968, which also includes the issue of violence, in the world and in Brazil in particular; b) a presentation of the main events and criticisms related to the educational policy of the dictatorship for Higher Education and for the control of the student movement, with its apogee in 1968; c) a deeper analysis of this legislation, setting a historiographic debate out and observing its relation with State violence and with the objectives of economic modernization of the country, accordingly to the dictates of the National Security Doctrine; d) a discussion of the meaning of “state of exception” in theoretical terms, reexamining its historical origins from the colonial domain and bringing considerations about the “exceptionality” of the educational law in Brazil under the dictatorship.
Keywords:
Capitalist Modernization; Dictatorship; Educational Laws