The shock and the order: the baroque as a way of analyzing the formation of Brazil

The article’s aim is to expose the relevance of the Baroque as a possibility for the interpretation of Brazil, taking for granted many doubts cast by the modern world on the establishment of the Iberian (and also Portuguese) subject. Thus, in the face of the questions raised by the Thomist tradition’s cosmology, and with the defeat of this project, as formulated by Richard Morse, we intend to observe how these elements are involved in Brazil’s colonization. Life in the new land, however, increases those questions, leaving only the Baroque as an alternative to building a meaning to the Iberian subject’s life and hence, to the construction of a new people.

Abstract licence: CC BY

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