Sérgio Buarque de Holanda leitor de Heidegger? – Reflexão sobre um paradoxo do personalismo do Homem cordial

Abstract

It is known that Sergio Buarque de Holanda, Brazilian essayist and historian, lived in Germany between the years 1929 and 1931, shortly after the publication of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. Moreover, it is known that the German philosopher was also carefully read by Sérgio Buarque in the late 1940s, when the Brazilian historian was reviewing the original text of Roots of Brazil, published in 1936.Two hypotheses therefore form the basis of this study: the first, that it is possible to glimpse something of Heidegger’s philosophy at the thought of SérgioBuarque; and second, that this approach is relevant to unveil aspects little explored in the literary criticism of the theory of cordial man, namely his relationship with the externality and the evasion of self in the other, by constituting what would be a fundamental paradox of Brazilian personalism.