DARCY LESSONS: FROM 20TH-CENTURY MODERNISM TO THE PANDEMIC OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

The article analyzes the reasons that made the indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak fear a Darcy Ribeiro's second metaphorical exile: if the first was a political one, after the 1964 Military Coup, the most recent would be an intellectual one, due to the forgetfulness of his work. It is formulated, as a hypothesis, that two factors help to understand the threat of exile of Darcy Ribeiro's legacy: the first is the essayistic and imaginative way of writing his books, which challenges academic scientism; the second is the modernist content of his project for Brazil, founded on indigenous inclusion and education, as Oswald de Andrade had dreamed of in the 1920s when spoke of the double base with “the forest and the school”, which challenges ethnocidal and ignorant history which have prevailed in the country.