Euclides theorem of modernization and the construction of man and political space in Brazil.

Abstract

The text seeks to understand the role of Euclides da Cunha as a
pioneering thinker about the contradictions of “brasilidade” specially
regarding the opposite binominal authonomv — authenticity versus cosmopolitanism-
progress. On the other hand it’s to understand that the
same over mencioned contradictions are already active in Euclides’
work itself because the epistemological relation between the theoretical
premise — tributary to the social-darwinism of lat century — and the
singularity of the reality to be graped.