Os usos da ideia de luta pela existência na produção intelectual do século XIX

Abstract

Evolutionism    was    certainly    the    largest    and    most    transformative paradigmatic  revolution  in  the  intellectual  field  of  the  West  during  the  nineteenth century.  One  of  the  most  striking  concepts provoked  in  the  circulation  of  evolutionist ideas was the "struggle for life". The central objective of this research is to understand the various meanings available during the nineteenth century for the idea of "struggle for  existence"  in  both  the  intellectual  and  scientific  fields.  We  will  use  as  bases  the works  of  intellectuals  linked  to  the  scientific  field -Charles  Darwin,  Herbert  Spencer and  Augusto  Miranda  de  Azevedo -and  intellectual -Silvio  Romero  and  Araripe Junior.  The  path  adopted  is  a  contextual analysis  of  the  various  occurrences  of  the evolutionist  concept  of Brazilian  intellectual  production  during  the  second half of  the 19th century.