O Brasil entre a história narrativa e a história analítica (1840-1870): civilização, progresso e desenvolvimento

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Sérgio Campos [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134157; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/19-01-2016/000857767.pdf
• topic: Historia - Metodologia; Historiografia; Intelectuais - História; Brasil - História - Séc. XIX

In the Nineteenth Century, the intellectual composition of Brazil took place notably through a historical narrative permeated by the concept of civilization, based on a teleological concept of history and on the Western-European modern design - a discursive pattern that we call nineteenth-century historical narrative. However, from the advent of the Republic and the first decades of the Twentieth Century, before the boom in Europe and the United States and the Brazil's failure in carrying out such project, several Brazilian intellectuals promoted analytical breakdowns of Brazil with the intention of understanding and point out solutions to the problem of backwardness of the country - this inaugurated an intellectual movement that became known as the Brazilian social thought. Thus, there is a contrast of two patterns from the nineteenth-century historical narrative to the Brazilian social thought, and two ways of thinking Brazil and of writing its history. This study seeks to understand how the change from a pattern to another took place in the historiographical discourse produced between 1840 and 1870. In order to do that, we seek to understand the establishment of truth and the rhetorical strategies in works of history of Brazil and in historical analysis of the country through the description of the logical structure of historiographical constructs, observing the regularities between the statements, the concepts production, the thematic choices and the theoretical formulations. Therefore, this is a multidisciplinary work that uses knowledge of the fields of theory of history, historiography, theory of literature and philosophy to apprehend (a) how the story about Brazil was thought in the period and which ideas served the historians who wrote it, (b) the linguistic elements, discursive patterns and narrative structures of the writing of the history of Brazil and (c) the logical construction of sense of Brazil through the writing of its..