Qorpo-Santo: inovação e conservação

Abstract

The author of an uncommon theatrical work for the dramatic standards of his time, the writings of the professor, joumalist, poet and dramaturge José Joaquim de Campos Leão, the Qorpo-Santo (1829-1883), form the disperse remains of a disturbing existence, inappreciable witness of an existential disorder, of a man interdicted as a madman and tormented by the Porto Alegre judicial authorities in the Second Empire. Misunderstood and repudiated by his contemporary colleagues, his Ensiqlopediaou Seis Mezes de Huma Enfermidade, remits to the most known traditions of the social and political thought in Brazil and Rio Grande do Sul in the XIX century. The idea of his work as an innovation modei, and simultaneously one of conservativeness, is added to the contextualization of the social and political thought of Qorpo-Santo in the ideas of the time. Also emphasized are the investigation of the author' s thought in face of the pedagogic practices in force in the province of São Pedro, his posture regarding natural law, his inquiries on the duality between the body and the soul, the reasons for his judicial interdiction and bis considerations on slave labor in Brazil