Publicada em: 06/12/2007 às 12:03 |
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Brasil, o país do futuro: uma aposta de Arthur de Gobineau?
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Arthur Gobineaus’s Essay on the inequality of human races has posthumously transformed its author in the “father of modern racism”. However, the book does not authorize any political program wich aimed to keep or to restore the purity of the races described in the work. So, the inherent risk to his ideas was, as de Tocqueville used to say, an incentive to resignation. Two decades after the publication of the Essay, Gobineau, who claimed that he had not any antidote to offer to the problem of degeneration, saw in the european immigration a possible way out for Brazil. He presented a hierarchical, centralized and “mixed” society as appealing for the immigrant. In this sense, the aim of this article is to investigate how Gobineau’s view about brazilian society comprehends a theoretical speculation about a reality wich seemed totally new to him: even with mixed races, Brazil would have preserved the distinctions wich he believed had disappeared in the Old Word. Key-words
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