BEZERRA DE MENEZES, Eduardo Diatahy. O barroco como cosmovisão matricial do Êthos cultural brasileiro. Revista de Ciências Sociais, Fortaleza, v.39, nº.1, 2008, p. 49-77The present project is an explanation of the preliminary results of an on-going research, actually in its initial stage, despite years of meditation on the theme. The effort to characterize the Baroque style implies not only an analysis of the diversity of concepts that the term embodies, but also a verification of the evolution process that it has undergone in its definition as well as in its appreciation. Grosso modo, we may didactically impute to great scholars of baroque its filiation to two antagonist currents of conception: 1) its perception as a cultural phenomen...