AUTHORITARIAN IDEAS IN BRAZILIAN MILITARY THOUGHT: THE PRESENCE OF OLIVEIRA VIANNA AND ALBERTO TÔRRES' CONCEPTIONS IN JUAREZ TÁVORA

Abstract

This article seeks to measure the impact of certain political-authoritarian ideas on Brazilian military thought. In view of the scope of this object, we will limit our analyses to the presence of the ideas of Alberto Tôrres and Oliveira Vianna in the midst of the thought of Juarez Távora, a unique figure in the political-military scenario between the 1920s and 1960s. Such an activity will allow the understanding of how certain conceptions of Tôrres and Vianna were read and reproduced by Távora, that is, if they were literally used, if they suffered inflections, or even, if changes are identified, what are the reasons for such changes. Because of this, we will investigate how Vianna and Tôrres' perceptions of Brazil may have inspired the construction of a diagnosis and a prognosis for the Brazilian nation in Távora's intellectual trajectory. In addition, we will attribute great relevance to the conjuncture, both for the historical context in which the ideas of Tôrres and Vianna were constituted, as well as for the social and political moment in Brazil in which Távora produced his positions and, mainly, articulated them given theorizations and readings of the two aforementioned authors.