Authoritarian Ideas in Brazilian Military Thought: The Presence of Conceptions From Oliveira Vianna and Alberto Tôrres in Juarez Távora

This article seeks to assess the impact of certain political-authoritarian ideas on Brazilian military thought. Given the scope of this subject, we will limit our analyses to the presence of the ideas of Alberto Tôrres and Oliveira Vianna in the thought of Juarez Távora, a unique figure in the political-military scene between the 1920s and 1960s. This activity will allow us to understand how certain conceptions of Tôrres and Vianna were read and reproduced by Távora, that is, whether they were literally used, whether they underwent inflections, or even, if changes are identified, what the reasons for such alterations were. Therefore, we will investigate how Vianna and Tôrres' perceptions of Brazil may have inspired the construction of a diagnosis and a prognosis for the Brazilian nation in Távora's intellectual trajectory. Furthermore, we will attribute great relevance to the situation, both to the historical context in which the ideas of Tôrres and Vianna were formed, and to the social and political moment in Brazil in which Távora produced his positions and, mainly, articulated them with the theories and readings of the two aforementioned authors.