Produção Nacional
STASIS, MOTION AND ACCELERATION: THE SENSES AND CONNOTATIONS OF TIME IN RAÍZES DO BRASIL AND SOBRADOS E MUCAMBOS (1936)
2020; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/2238-38752019v1019
ISSN2238-3875
Autores Tópico(s)Social and Cultural Dynamics
ResumoAbstract This article investigates the senses and connotations of “time” that work to define the cognitive horizons of the first editions (1936) of Roots of Brazil and The mansions and the shanties. By ascribing to Brazilian society a temporal configuration distinct from those attributed to so-called central modern societies, both essays tend to depict Brazil’s modernization as a dissonant case in terms of the institutional, cultural, moral-ethical, epistemological and aesthetic patterns commonly associated with modernity. At the same time, the article also seeks to demonstrate that these very same works - striving to explain a societal configuration that appeared to them anti-paradigmatic in many of its features - offer valuable clues for a critical assessment of the “substantialist” and “internalist” biases that frequently orient the sociological imagination concerning modernity and its temporality.
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