Alberto Torres (
Itaboraí, 1865 -
Rio de Janeiro state, 1917) was a politician and a Brazilian social thinker who was concerned about national unity and the organization of the society of
Brazil.
In his work, he opposed the ideas of
socialism and
individualism as incompatible to the Brazilian reality and believed them to be responsible for the disintegration of society. He believed that objectively understanding Brazilian society is necessary to know its needs and to present pragmatic changes to it.
To do so, a strong state must lead changes.
His ideas were very much in use during
Brazilian Revolution of 1930 and the
1964 Brazilian coup d'état
The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état ( pt, Golpe de estado no Brasil em 1964), colloquially known in Brazil as the Coup of 64 ('), was a series of events in Brazil from March 31 to April 1 that led to the overthrow of President João Goulart by membe ...
.
His daughter
Heloísa Alberto Torres was a Brazilian anthropologist and museum director.
Works
* ''O problema nacional brasileiro''
* ''A organização nacional''
* ''As fontes da vida no Brasil'', 1915
References
* Rezende, Maria José de. Organização, coordenação e mudança social em Alberto Torres. Estudos de Sociologia, n. 8, 1º sem. 2000.
* Souza, Ricardo Luiz de. Nacionalismo e authoritarismo em Alberto Torres. In: Sociologias, no. 13, 2005, pp. 302–323
Brazilian writers
Ministers of justice of Brazil
1865 births
1917 deaths
People from Itaboraí
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