Os “intelectuais-heróis” e as mitologias políticas contemporâneas: a história transnacional da produção intelectual de Alfredo Pimenta, Gustavo Barroso, Plínio Salgado e Rolão Preto

Abstract

The research proposal is the transnational relationship analysis established between two pairs of Luso-Brazilian intellectuals, Alfredo Pimenta and Gustavo Barroso, Plínio Salgado and Rolão Preto during the first half of the twentieth century. For this, we will use the methodological resources of transnational history, whose approaches main are the subsidies and the imaginary structures that overflowed the borders of their respective countries. So, the first purpose refers to the choice of specific moments in their political and ideological trajectories that best summarize the process of building "intellectual hero", a term that fundamentally revealed the dream of these four intellectuals of build an immaculate selfimage, that in several occasions was confused with the model used in the stories written about mythical heroes, sacred or profane. The investigation quest an examination of the main and symbolic and / or cultural product produced by this type of intellectual, the written word, which was consummated by the appropriation of narratives essences of Caramuru and Sebastianism and (re) signified through contemporary myths of Conspiracy and Salvation. Thus, we seek the one hand, hold a cross-country analysis of the Lusitanian and Brazilian mythical categories and on the other, establish a point of intersection between the political myths, which were present in authoritarian intellectual projects of state-building and short overseas.