THE DEBATE BETWEEN WANDERLEY GUILHERME DOS SANTOS AND BOLÍVAR LAMOUNIER IN BRAZILIAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE 1970S: oppositions, convergences and complementaritiesWanderley Guilherme dos Santos and Bolívar Lamounier marked Brazilian political and social thought, investigating it since the late 1960s. In two classic works analized and properly contextualized here, Santos (1978) and Lamounier (1974) proposed different interpretations about Brazil and our thought. Lamounier emphasizes the intellectual consistency around state performance, denouncing the prominence of Nation-State to the detriment of Brazilian liberalism – a process that came to guide him intellectually. Santos designs an intellectuality capable of strategically formulating the overcoming of the country’s historical backwardness based on the understanding of the national particularity. It explains and justifies, thus, our state-national political tradition while reflecting it socially. The known differences in their analytical propositions are revisited considering the hypothesis of complementarity between them.
Brazilian social and political thought; Sociology of intellectuals; History of social sciences in Brazil; Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos; Bolívar Lamounier