Intellectuals, “revolutionary romanticism” and engaged culture in Brazil

Abstract

Articulating the relations between culture, ideology and politics, in Brazil, from middles in the years 50, the article shows the discussions focusing in some sectors of the Brazilian intelligentsia while thinking the problems of the modernization of the country, doing with her what part it was enlarged catching on in sectors of the committed culture of in the 60, marked by a “revolutionary romanticism ”. Here, figures-keys as Glauber Rocha and Oduvaldo Vianna Son are unfolded in his affinities with the revolutionary romanticism, both marked by this structure of sensibility that will influence significantly the formation of an anticapitalist Brazilian intelligentsia and, on the other side, with different visions about the binomial art / politics. This world vision would enter in crisis in counterposition to a cultural quick industry if it changed aspects of the Brazilian intelligentsia itself. Brazil marked by a capitalism dual, or good, of development unequal and combined, moved by the class struggle in a temporality with new associations and interactions, which are regenerated in surprising forms.