The Antonio Candido’s intellectual trajectory fruitful, extremely long-lived and highly investigative could not have produced and not produced closed theoretical concepts and cohesive, verifiable equally in all their production, and therefore, can be taken off of the empirical objects of which it spear hand and applied haphazardly to any other contexts. To discuss this proposition, this article analyze different moments of its history through three distinct styles of production minted by himself: an essay “committed in theory,” a “schematic critical” and “historical criticism” and we analyze the various values and features that term “society” takes on according to specific objects of these different types of essay.A trajetória longeva e alt...