Teoria política e nacionalismo periférico na obra de Hélio Jaguaribe, Alberto Guerreiro Ramos e Celso Furtado: epistemologia, história e política (1953-1964)

Abstract

By analyzing the writings of Hélio Jaguaribe, Alberto Guerreiro Ramos and Celso Furtado (1953-1964), and the diachronic and synchronic links that constitute a certain layer of the Brazilian nationalist language, we intend to demonstrate that it is possible to identify the constitution of a political theory underlying the thought of these authors. We propose that this political theory can be understood fundamentally through three dimensions: epistemological, historical / historiographical and political. In terms of the epistemological dimension, we focus especially on reflectionsthat concern the determinations placed on the production of knowledge in the political field, given the peripheral condition; the historical / historiographical dimension is expressed in a critical interpretation of the Brazilian historical process based on the concept of development; the political dimension encompasses not only the political project taken on by the authors, but also the theorizing effort on the very democratization process that they believed to witness, formalizing its ultimate manifestation in a democratic theory.