Mario Vieira de Mello e a questão nacional: reflexões sobre o estetismo na cultura brasileira

• Autor(a) principal: Fontes, Filipe Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24760
• topic: estetismo; desenvolvimentismo; cultura brasileira; questão nacional; Mario Vieira de Mello; aestheticism; developmentalism; Brazilian culture; the national question; Mario Vieira de Mello; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::FILOSOFIA

The national question was constantly questioned by national thought. The national question was, in general, related to the idea of delay. At the end of the century and early nineteenth century XX, the national question and the alleged delay in Brazil was explained from the bio-psychological paradigm, the ideology of national character. The criticisms of anthropology and sociology to that paradigm, at the beginning of the century XX caused its gradual weakening and, later, its downfall, in Brazil, driven by the work of Caio Prado Junior. During the second half of the century XX, in the 50s and 60s, the bio-psychological paradigm gave rise to economic development. Since then, the national question before explained from racial elements, or the relationship between race and environment, has to be explained by the economic position of Brazil in relation to nations considered developed. In this context comes into play Development and Culture, written by Mario Vieira de Mello in 1963 to join the dialogue on the country's development. The purpose of this study is to assess the role of Mario Vieira de Mello, his work Development and Culture, and his notion of aestheticism in Brazilian culture to the understanding of the national question.