Why read the communication’s Classics: theorists from Peirce to Canclini

Abstract

This review presents how the reading of the work Clássicos da comunicação: os teóricos de Peirce a Canclini [Classics of communication: the theorists from Peirce to Canclini], published in 2017 and organized by professors Leonel Aguiar and Adriana Barsotti – with the contribution of PhD researchers representing teaching institutions of every Brazilian region –, dialogues with the contemporaneity of communication studies. The collection exposes how the theories elaborated by these authors, besides building the memory of the field, evoke the critical thinking and make themselves current along with questions about the own ideas and concepts that have been transformed into classical references of the field of Communication.