This book discusses twentieth-century Brazilian political thought,
arguing that while Rio de Janeiro intellectuals envisaged the state
and the national bourgeoisie as the means to overcome dependency on
foreign ideas and culture, Sao Paulo intellectuals looked to civil
society and the establishment of new academic institutions in the
search for national identity. Ronald H. Chilcote begins his study
by outlining Brazilian intellectuals' attempt to transcend a sense
of inferiority emanating from Brazilian colonialism and
backwardness. Next, he traces the struggle for national identity in
Rio de Janeiro through an account of how intellectuals of varying
political persuasions united in search of a political ideology of
national development. He then presents an analysis by Sao Paulo
intellectuals on racial discrimination, social inequality, and
class differentiation under early capitalism and industrialization.
Lastly, the book concludes with a discussion on how Brazilian
intellectuals challenged foreign thinking about development through
the state and representative democratic institutions, in contrast
to popular and participatory democratic practices."
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