O itinerário do pensamento político de Euclides da Cunha (1883- 1909): um estilo periférico na interpretação do Estado-Nação brasileiro

Abstract

This thesis aimed to approach the itinerary of Euclides da Cunha's (1883-1909) political thought, trying to understand how the categories of State/Nation were organized in his vast literary framework. With this, I seek to reveal how the processes of ruptures and reframing in Euclides' political thought took place, selecting writings that portrayed the Brazilian social and political reality, from the totality of his literary production. Therefore, we chose to combine two types of analysis strategies: (1) chronological, taking as a reference the historical moment when Euclid wrote his texts; (2) linguistic contextualism seeking to understand the relationship between text and the production context. Thereby the analysis of the itinerary of Euclides da Cunha's political thought can only be understood in the chronological order of the evolution of his political ideas, mainly because it shows a political language product of his experiences in the cycles of school youth, the Sertões and the Amazon. Thus, revisiting the itinerary of Euclid's political thought allowed us to understand how this intellectual built his conception of progress and how he reacted when he noticed a clash with the national reality.Therefore, Euclides' ideas are the expression of dichotomized thinking, a portrait of this nationalist lineage, in which, until the end of his life, he insisted on building a synthesis between evolutionism, positivism and socialism as a way out of the Brazilian problems of that period.