Oswald de Andrade e a Revista de Antropofagia: sociabilidades e recepção da filosofia de Nietzsche na primeira fase antropofágica (1928-1929)

Abstract

This dissertation examines the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) philosophy by Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954), focusing on the first formulation of Anthropophagy between 1928 and 1929. The central objective is to understand how ideas, themes, and attitudes associated with Nietzschean thought circulated, were appropriated—or rather, devoured—within modernist sociabilities, particularly through the Revista de Antropofagia, the primary source of this study. It is based on the notion of reception as an active and inventive practice, subject to diversions and displacements, as well as reading as a form of creation, as discussed by Roger Chartier. Methodologically, the dissertation articulates, alongside Chartier, contributions from Michel de Certeau, Quentin Skinner, and Jean-François Sirinelli, specifically regarding the notions of sociability, intellectual itinerary, circulation of ideas, and text as a speech act. To delineate Oswaldian sociabilities, his autobiography and two biographies are used as sources, approached through the discussions of François Dosse. Consequently, the study outlines Oswald de Andrade’s intellectual itinerary and the sociabilities relevant to his intellectual formation, through which he came into contact with Nietzsche's philosophy. The Revista de Antropofagia is analyzed as an intellectual microcosm in which aesthetic, political, and moral clashes characteristic of the “modernist climate,” in Peter Gay’s terms, are manifested. It is observed that Oswald de Andrade read and appropriated Nietzschean philosophy both for his artistic formulations and for his self-constitution as a persona whose creative engine was rooted in conflict. Oswaldian Anthropophagy, according to this research’s interpretation, emerges from the confrontations and debates that the modernist engaged in with the Verde-Amarelo group. This study analyzes the presence of Nietzsche's philosophy in the Revista de Antropofagia, particularly in texts that debated and challenged religious morality. By prioritizing the first phase of Anthropophagy, this research seeks to contribute to studies on the reception of Nietzsche’s thought in Brazil, a topic still under-explored within the field of History.