Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos (Braga, 19 April 1889 - Rio de Janeiro, 11 November 1950) was a Portuguese
philosopher
A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...
and teacher, noted for coining the term and writing the first theory of
rhythmanalysis
''Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life'' is a collection of essays by Marxism, Marxist sociology, sociologist and urbanist philosophy, philosopher Henri Lefebvre. The book outlines a method for analyzing the rhythms of urban spaces and the ...
, focused on its physiological dimensions. His ideas on rhythmanalysis have been later further developed by French philosophers
Gaston Bachelard and
Henri Lefebvre.
[Meyer, Kurt]
"Rhythms, Streets, Cities"
in ''Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre'', Routledge, 2008
Biography
Born in
Braga on 19 April 1889, Lúcio Alberto Pinheiro dos Santos first studied law at the
University of Coimbra. He later moved to
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
where he embarked on a teaching career. In 1917 he emigrated to Brazil,
[Pedro Baptista]
"Ciclo de conferências A Ritmanálise: Lúcio Pinheiro dos Santos e Gaston Bachelard"
Institudo de Filosofia, 2010 (''in Portuguese'') but returned in 1919 when appointed Professor at the Faculty of Arts of Coimbra, from where he moved in the same year to the Faculty of Arts of Porto. While teaching, he also served for a short period as an MP for the
Guimarães
Guimarães () is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga.
Its historic town centre has been listed as a UNESCWorld Heritage Sitesince 2001, in recognition for being an "exceptionally well-preserved and a ...
constituency, and between 1923-26 was the Head of the Education Services of
Portuguese India
The State of India ( pt, Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (''Estado Português da Índia'', EPI) or simply Portuguese India (), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a se ...
.
[University of Porto]
"Teachers and students of the first Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto"
retrieved 1 April 2013
Following the
military coup of 1926, he went again into exile to Brazil. He published in 1931 the book ''Ritmanálise'', which had no major impact at the time,
but strongly influenced
Gaston Bachelard.
He died in Rio de Janeiro on 11 November 1950.
References
External links
Portrait of Pinheiro dos Santosby
Abel Manta Abel Manta (12 October 1888 in Gouveia Municipality, Portugal, Gouveia – 9 August 1982 in Lisbon) was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist.
Between 1904 and 1916 attended the school of Fine Arts, completed the course in pa ...
, 1914
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20th-century Portuguese philosophers
1889 births
People from Braga
1950 deaths