É preciso crer: contribuição para uma história do conceito de homem integral segundo a doutrina de Plínio Salgado (1932-1937)

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the Plinio Salgado’s doctrine, known as “Integralist” and about the Ação Integralista Brasileira (AIB), a movement that occurred among the years between 1932 and 1937, in Brazil. Our purpose is to analyze the political project supported by Salgado towards the creation of a new national political culture, which aims were to accomplish the process of State and nation’s constructions and the end of History, itself. Our investigation started with the analysis over the meaning of the political concept of integralism on its own emerging context. In order to do that, we studied the multiple contexts and temporalities within the concept of “integral man”, the main representation that had been created during Salgado’s political campaign in the interwar period. Through this research we intend, as well, to rich a better definition of the political cultures that converged to the institution of the AIB, focusing them as political myths and part of the integralist speech. On doing this, we will be able to comprehend the historical role of Salgado and of the AIB´s trajectory, as a conservative modernization process that occurred in Brazil, by the advent of the “Estado Novo’s political regime”.