Oliveira Vianna em dois recursos à história

Abstract

Oliveira Vianna is clear in his anti-liberalism. However, it is not so easy to simply argue that when he speaks in laudatory tone of the English experience, for example, he makes a merely argumentative point, in order to make his speech informed and palatable. The hypothesis to be explored is that the theoretical work of Oliveira Vianna rests on two appeals to history. A formula in which a narrative about the past helps to place a social and political goal in the future. And another which is used less frequently, less clearly, and that is related with a broader purpose: to enter Brazil in the rubric of modernity. Yes, as one who conceives a correct movement to history, but also the possibility s different projects. That is, on the one hand, modern Europe is liberal, something Brazil can not be; for another, corporativism in Europe raises the possibility of a modernity that is not a step, but replacement of liberalism and that would represent a shorter way between the Brazillian reality and modernity.