Educação e Filosofia
Print version ISSN 0102-6801On-line version ISSN 1982-596X
Abstract
PINHO, Amon. Agostinho da Silva, from engaged philologist to militant and critical humanist: a Seara Nova collaborator’s path in times of formation of Salazarism (1928-1933). Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2020, vol.34, n.71, pp.607-678. Epub Feb 06, 2022. ISSN 1982-596X. https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v34n71a2020-53262.
This study reconstructs the theoretical-political path of Agostinho da Silva between the years of 1928 and 1933, mainly through the analysis of a series of articles published in Seara Nova, a relevant Portuguese journal of “doctrine and criticism”. In the light of this thematic and chronological approach, the point of view distinguished here focuses on: 1) a little-known, but representative, part of Agostinho da Silva's youth work, through which we can know the performance of a young and polemical philologist, engaged in an offensive to renew the Classical Studies in Portugal, against the intellectual establishment; 2) the gestation of the militant and critical Humanism that will henceforth be established as the decisive foundation of his thought and action; and 3) the contemporary institutionalization, at the macro-political level, of the New State led by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Upon reaching the final considerations, the reader will be able to understand how the three aspects analyzed throughout the study are closely articulated, inasmuch as it will be demonstrated how the theoretical and political trajectory of the young thinker recapitulates the major issues of that Portuguese and European context of the interwar period. In this sense, the history of the individual, here, is also a condensed portrait of an era.
Keywords : Agostinho da Silva; Seara Nova; criticism of the intellectuals and of Salazarism; Hellenism and Humanism; Europeanist modernization.