O povo brasileiro e as linguagens da modernidade

Abstract

This study intends to demonstrate that, because of its historical and cultural peculiarities, the social formation process in Brazil can be better understood if the interpretative model used is that offered by Barboza Filho´s languages of modernity. Through the mobilization of those languages and their own modern subjectivity foundation programs, each perspective and project built by brazilian social theory will be revisited and reconsidered, in order to criticize either the language of interest or the language of reason as unappropriate filters to identify the rising of the people. Mainstream authors who have proceeded in many analysis of Brazil will be focused, based on their proximity to the referred languages. Those who have incorporated reazon’s or interests’ characters will be revealed as unable to figure out the country reality’s positive aspects. And those who have come closer to the affections will be shown as capable of doing so. In conclusion, it will be elucidated that the languages’ theory is the most accurate tool to understand brazilian reality and also that the language of affections can better provide the lenses capable to distinguish the people’s formation, because it does not persue the citizen’s nor the individual’s paradigms, but, instead, it considers the person as a subject of attributes and potencialities and also as a product of its own social relations.