For the sake of Movement: nature and modernity in Antonio Candido's Os Parceiros do Rio Bonito

Author(s)

Ana Carolina Vila Ramos dos Santos

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2013-05-12

Examining board members

Leila da Costa Ferreira; Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri; Fernando Antonio Lourenço; Luiz Gustavo Freitas Rossi; Sergio Barreira de Faria Tavolaro

• Advisor: Leila da Costa Ferreira

Abstract

This work looks at a important moment of the Brazilian sociological thought formation - from 1940 to 1960 - and takes as object of study Antonio Candido's "Os Parceiros do Rio Bonito". We suggest that Antonio Candido's sociology, as constructed and exposed in "Os Parceiros do Rio Bonito, is in the confluence of theoretical, methodological, social e political debates crucial to the comprehension of the Brazilian social thought formation. Taking as guide the idea of nature in its articulation with the theme "modernity", I intend to draw a history about what and how nature has been thought in the Brazilian sociology (especially, those studies that take place in São Paulo state in the period drawn above) as a first step to construct a critical background to the development of contemporary studies in the environmental sociology (AU)