![]() ![]() Este ensaio argumenta que a cultura ibérica, tal como descrita no livro, não se conforma perfeitamente à dimensão intelectual da cordialidade. Ultimately, the book permits a deeper questioning of the collective pulses and individual desires that, together, form the matter to which populism would respond, a political form temporarily capable of meeting the people’s demands.Įm Raízes do Brasil (1936), Sérgio Buarque de Holanda atribui à cultura ibérica o protagonismo exclusivo na gênese do estilo de vida e pensamento predominante no Brasil, sintetizado na imagem do “homem cordial”. On the other hand, the cordial man offers Buarque de Holanda a window into the limits of democratic liberalism and the personalistic political traditions of Latin America: an impasse discussed at length but never resolved in Roots of Brazil. On the one hand, the cordial man is a product of turn-of-the-century debates on Latin American exceptionalism, a figure almost capable of withstanding the disillusions of the modern world. In this context, the “cordial man” emerges as a metaphor for the lack of public space in Brazil. Discussion begins with the limits of Brazil’s search for national specificity, so as to consider Brazilian cultural formation as a projection of its colonial Iberian roots. ![]() ![]() This article analyzes Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Roots of Brazil (1936), a seminal book in the Brazilian essayist tradition. ![]()
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