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| Author(s): |
Luciana Aparecida Aliaga Azara de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2013-00-00 |
| Examining board members: |
Marcos Tadeu del Roio;
Ruy Gomes Braga Neto;
Adriano Nervo Codato;
Edmundo Fernandes Dias
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| Advisor: | Alvaro Gabriel Bianchi Mendez |
| Abstract | |
Although the phenomenon of minority officers has been treated by different authors, was in Italy at the end of the century. XIX, by Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941) and Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), who found systematic enough to achieve status of political theory. Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), in Quaderni del Carcere establishes important dialogue with the theory of elites, expressing confluences and differences. In common with the authors has the elitist tradition of Machiavellian political studies, ie, the Machiavellian realism, which is responsible for some remarkable continuities and thematic affinities in the formulations of general political concepts between these authors. However, there is a discussion of the theory underlying the elites, who, though less apparent, so it is not less important - debate about the possibility of formulating a science of political realities. Through this debate Machiavellian realism acquires different features. Pareto claims science fictional ideals of freedom, based on empirical observation and history, which leads him to understand the division between rulers and ruled as an immutable reality, corresponding to the divisions of mankind. Gramsci, on the other hand, proposes the development of a science of politics can grasp the historical occurrences in their complexity comprising the "reality" as a phenomenon/appearance of the processes generated within the dialectical movement between structure and superstructure. This leads him to understand the problem of elites by a historical-political bias. With this, Gramsci contributes to an enrichment of Machiavellian realism. This discussion about the possibility and nature of political science, important methodological issues and policy are brought to light and are important, we believe, not only for discussions of political science in the first half of the twentieth century, but also raise contemporary issues and conflicts within science policy issues that remain fundamental to improving the theoretical and methodological tools of the discipline (AU) | |