Action in the form thought: Philosophical, Political and Educational Presence of Francisco Vieira de Almeida in Seara Nova

Abstract

This article analyzes the corpus constituted by the contributions of the philosopher Francisco Vieira de Almeida (1888-1962) to Seara Nova, one of the most relevant Portuguese journals in the twentieth century. The cultural, reformist, democratic and multidisciplinary orientation of this publication allowed it to bring together different authors and tendencies, giving rise to the coexistence of multiple corpora, whose identities are articulated with the editorial line. In the case of the set under study, a whole dynamic of intentionality embodied in the texts becomes particularly visible, which reveals how the Journal appears, for the Professor of the Faculty of Letters, the ideal place to cross academic, cultural, and political points of view. The treatment of such writings, which result from the dialogue between discourses and contexts, combines intratextuality and intertextuality, along with inferential paths through the folding of story and history, a composite interpretive methodology, aimed at making perceptible the textual hybridity that materializes the mesh of perspectives and intervention plans.