THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY IN THE WORK OF EVALDO CABRAL DE MELLO AT CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This article discusses the social imaginary, concept developed by Cornelius Castoriadis and used
by Evaldo Cabral de Mello in work whose objective is to understand the response of colonial
power which took place in Pernambuco to the liberal revolutions of the nineteenth century. The
concept of social imaginary of Castoriadis - cognitive and reproductive dimension of social
relations themselves - is the process by which social groups are instituted as such. The use of this
concept by Mello seeks to understand how the Pernambuco six hundred sought to make efforts in
the war against the Dutch. The institution of nativism is permeated by the symbolic starting this
natural, history, rational. Thus nativism for Pernambuco was projecting a real need, which arose
in the war against the Dutch, changing over two and a half centuries the needs of the scene,
where driving along the descendants of those who instituted.