Raymundo Faoro
Encyclopedia
Raymundo Faoro was a lawyer
, jurist
, sociologist, historian
, writer
and president of the Brazilian Bar Association, which in Portuguese is known as OAB (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil). Even though lawyers have an expressive presence in the political scenery of Brazil, not one President after Faoro gained the same intellectual respect as he did.
Faoro was author of a few books. The most important of all his books was "Os Donos do Poder" (The Owners of Power). In this book, Faoro describes the History of Power in Brazilian History, since the pre-colonial times until approximately the end of the Getúlio Vargas first period.
In this book, Faoro gave special attention to the "estamento", or social layer, which, although changing periodically according to political and economic phases, ruled Brazil.
According to Faoro, this upper estamento (which were the people associated with the navigators back in the 16th century, the slave owners sugar-cane farmers in the 18th century, the coffee farmers in the 19th century, for example) always attempted to use the power and wealth of the State in self benefit, so preventing the masses from actually ruling the country in benefit of the majority. Raymund Faoro also wrote books on the brazilian social and political thought, on the writer and poet Machado de Assis and brazilian modern society and politics.
Faoro's book became one of the references to understand the formation of Brazilian society and influenced the brazilian and brazilianist sociology, historiography and political science. Other books which gained such recognition were Sergio Buarque de Holanda's Raizes do Brasil, Gilberto Freyre
's Casa Grande e Senzala and Caio Prado Junior
's Formação do Brasil Contemporâneo.
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
, jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...
, sociologist, historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and president of the Brazilian Bar Association, which in Portuguese is known as OAB (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil). Even though lawyers have an expressive presence in the political scenery of Brazil, not one President after Faoro gained the same intellectual respect as he did.
Faoro was author of a few books. The most important of all his books was "Os Donos do Poder" (The Owners of Power). In this book, Faoro describes the History of Power in Brazilian History, since the pre-colonial times until approximately the end of the Getúlio Vargas first period.
In this book, Faoro gave special attention to the "estamento", or social layer, which, although changing periodically according to political and economic phases, ruled Brazil.
According to Faoro, this upper estamento (which were the people associated with the navigators back in the 16th century, the slave owners sugar-cane farmers in the 18th century, the coffee farmers in the 19th century, for example) always attempted to use the power and wealth of the State in self benefit, so preventing the masses from actually ruling the country in benefit of the majority. Raymund Faoro also wrote books on the brazilian social and political thought, on the writer and poet Machado de Assis and brazilian modern society and politics.
Faoro's book became one of the references to understand the formation of Brazilian society and influenced the brazilian and brazilianist sociology, historiography and political science. Other books which gained such recognition were Sergio Buarque de Holanda's Raizes do Brasil, Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
's Casa Grande e Senzala and Caio Prado Junior
Caio Prado Júnior
Caio da Silva Prado Júnior was a Brazilian historian.His works inaugurated a Brazilian historiographic tradition identified with Marxism, but critical of Stalinist stageism and reductionism....
's Formação do Brasil Contemporâneo.