The democracy in Raízes do Brasil

Abstract

This article intends to analyse the democracy question on Raízes do Brasil. In the pages of the work at issue, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda is moved away from the "abstract reasoning" that would characterize the speech of modernization to come of the concern with the "concrete" aspects of the political reality. In these aspects, Sérgio Buarque would have recognized the values and virtues for an authentic way of democratic life.