Ensaismo, ação coletiva e Estado nacional : uma metainterpretação de obras selecionadas da literatura Brasiliana

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Paulo Emílio Douglas de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12401
• topic: Coleção Brasiliana; Estado novo; Neo-institutionalistic perspective; Territorialization; Organization of social solidarity; Brasiliana; Estado nacional; Territorialização; Ação coletiva; Organização da solidariedade social; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

The object of this thesis is to expose the movement of collective coordination which underlies a selected body of pieces by Brazilian authors of the first half of the twentieth century reunited under the title Coleção Brasiliana. The hypothesis is that this group of intellectuals regularly intervened in public debate for three or four decades of the last century in a rational and orchestrated manner in order to build in a near future a national estate in Brazil. If the diagnosis is justified, they were dealing with a collective action problem since a national estate is public good. The intraelite solving strategy consisted in the creation of political culture of mass based on the national imperative idea which by ideological mobilization of public opinion and government succeeded concerning the aims previously registered in their speech: to put an end to disarray, to restitute nation organization and to create political institutions congruent with the reality of the country. For the purpose of this work processes involve, among the most important items, state building the effective territorialization, legitimization of public authorities and organization of social solidarity. In the case of Brazil, once all the collective action dilemmas regarding intellectuals were solved, later in 1937, institutional structure would emerge, established to fix rules, to reduce uncertainty and/or information cost, to endow the actors of mutual expectations, ultimately to bring regularity and stability to the exchange between individuals: the Estado Novo. The work is divided into four chapters followed by brief final considerations. In Chapter 1, I make a personal evaluation of the reception of rational choice in Brazilian academic circles, besides calling attention to certain common stigmatizations. In Chapter 2, the concept of individual rationality is submitted to epistemic and ontological non-exhaustive examination. I make an additional effort to bring it closer to external aspects which tend to alter its substance in origin. In Chapter 3, I offer general reference about the establishment of national states as well as short indications of the challenges that waite for them in the XXI century. In Chapter 4, the last part of the text, I give an overall look at the steps of the formation of the national state in Brazil in order to discuss the country model which the brasilianos had in mind for the XX century. I also aim to specify the work method (choice of the authors, organization of the topics and application of neo-institutionalistic perspective). The remaining pages are intended for exhibition of the ideas of the brasilianos. I close the thesis with a broad summary added to an analysis about the intellectual coordination of the project of the nation-estate in Brazil