O conceito de “homem cordial” em sérgio buarque de holanda: atualidade e possibilidades de sua aplicação no brasil contemporâneo.

Abstract

In this essay I discuss about the concept of “homem cordial" (cordial man), as Sergio Buarque de Holanda described it in his work Raízes do Brasil (1936). The general objective is to discuss the notion of cordiality as a mark of national identity, searching for one reflexion on the presence of this characteristic in currente context on Brazil. Holanda paid attention to our aversion to the rational rituals of politics, which results in practices aimed at realizing private interests above public interests. In a way that brazilian historical trajectory, which began with the colonization process, a constant control of private wills was established, in elitist or patriarchal groups, turning made our impersonal ordering difficult. The central question of this monograph concerns the application of the concept of “cordial man” in the current national context. This analysis uses as an empirical resource some news published in national media outlets that exemplify the presence of “cordiality” in the country’s political culture, with attention to the family as an expression of a greater force in society, bringing with it “public morality” linked to patrimonialism, this being a social trait of the formation of Brazil.