A noção de via prussiana e de via colonial e seu impacto na compreensão histórica de Carlos Nelson Coutinho e José Chasin sobre a formação social brasileira

Abstract

The present study, integrated to researches in development at the research area "Culture, Migrations and Labour" of the Master's Graduate Program in History at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (PPGH-UFSM), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, intends to critically understand the use of the concept of Prussian path in the study of the development of the Brazilian Social Formation, starting from the synthesis of the genesis of the incorporation of the concept and its resonances in two selected authors of Brazilian social thought: Carlos Nelson Coutinho and José Chasin. The research approaches the text produced by these authors as, on the one hand, a reflection of their social reality and, on the other, as a unitary and coherent conception of the world destined to intervene on this same reality. In this sense, we make a conceptual cut from the category of Prussian path that seeks to apprehend the determinations of these authors in the understanding of the historical process of Brazilian Social Formation, as well as to what extent this conceptual incorporation is validated by the original elaboration of the category. The determination as to the use of this heuristic key, as an application of a universal model, or as a form of apprehension of the determinations emanating from the analysis of reality, allowing to reach the central objective of this research: to determine to what extent this understanding can be enriched by the incorporation of this concept.