Heraldo Barbuy

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Professor Heraldo Barbuy

Heraldo Barbuy (São Paulo, July 30, 1913 – January 9, 1979) was a Brazilian journalist, historian, sociologist, philosopher and prolific writer.

His ancestor came from the Veneto, Italy.

He was a professor at the University of São Paulo.

Biography

He was born in São Paulo on July 30, 1913, and was the son of Hermógenes Barbuy and Maria Chinaglia Barbuy, both born in the region of Veneto, in northeastern Italy. His father, Hermógenes Barbuy – brother of the great idol of São Paulo football, Amílcar Barbuy – was a lithographer and cartographer and designed three of the first shields of the Sport Club Corinthians Paulista. At the age of eight, he lost his mother, a victim of tuberculosis, a fact that marked him deeply throughout his life. He lived all his childhood and adolescence in the neighborhood of Bom Retiro, where he was born, and studied at the Liceu Sagrado Coração de Jesus, in the neighboring Campos Elíseos neighborhood. Intending to pursue a priestly career, he became a Franciscan seminarian. Experiencing a great crisis, he abandoned the Order in 1937, at the age of 24, and although he ended up overcoming it, relying on his religious beliefs, the circumstance greatly influenced both his work and the course he followed in life.

Initially he worked in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, taking care of issues related to international coverage, during the conflagration and already in the post-war period. During this phase he approached existentialism and Marxism and also exercised the magisterium. In 1945, converted to Catholicism, he married Belkiss Miranda Silveira, who had been his student at Colégio Rio Branco and with whom he had four children.

Some time after his reconversion to Catholicism, he entered the competition for the chair of Philosophy at USP in 1950, together with Oswald de Andrade, João Cruz Costa, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Luís Washington Vita and Renato Cherna, from which they ended up excluding those who did not have a course in Philosophy, a judicial measure that benefited Cruz Costa, made holder of the chair. He later graduated in Philosophy from the traditional Faculty of São Bento, in São Paulo. Better succeeding in another competition, he joined the Faculty of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, being obliged to do a doctorate in this area and also compete for Free Teacher, which explains the presence in his bibliography of works of this content. Nevertheless, he maintained active participation in the philosophical movement of the capital of São Paulo. He is considered a precursor to the demonstration of the religious character of Marxism, a thesis that would later become commonplace. He achieved great renown as a teacher.

He died in São Paulo on January 9, 1979, at the age of 65.

Intellectual activity

Heraldo Barbuy published his first written work at the age of 23, the novel "O Beco da Cachaça" being, as observed by Zélia Ladeira Veras de Almeida Cardoso – "a nostalgic work", which mixes "a romantic tone of Hugoan influence with the vague decadentist flavor, proper to the texts of the beginning of the century". Heraldo Barbuy describes, in "The Alley of Cachaça" – "a sad tribute to all the sad, that in the sharing of the goods of life, of his had only defeat and despair" – that provincial São Paulo, "sad and shrunken at the edge of a stream without waves, packed in the half light of steaming lanterns, by the viola of its troubadours, shaken at midnight by the singing of his slaves, hidden under the thickness of his baetas, swum under the mantle of his eternal fog, kneeling in the silence of his churches, enchanted by the naïve joy of his festive Sundays, meditative and grave in the dark austerity of all his days."

For many, it was – in Paul Bomfim's words – a "star cruise" that guided everyone "across the murky sea of these days." Barbuy, "the last crusader in a world where men mechanize and machines are spiritualized", led – as the poet of "Armorial" – by "passions and his will to get it right, walked from rage to skepticism, from skepticism to St. Thomas, from St. Thomas to Heidegger."

Heraldo – in the words of Gilberto de Mello Kujawski – was always faithful to the name, which means herald, since he never ceased to be the bearer of the word and its spiritual power. "Not from the hollow and sound word, but from the word passed on of thought and meaning, 'logos'". The author of "Fernando Pessoa, the other" – who considers himself a debtor of Barbuy for the revelation he made, to him and so many others, "of life as a mission of greatness, of culture as a creator of meaning, of history as a source of reality, poetry and mystique as initiation to ecstasy" – evoked the "amazing verbal power" with which Heraldo Barbuy "immediately familiarized the listeners" with the themes he focused on in the conference halls, radio, television, or simple conversations between friends.

According to Kujawski, Barbuy's house lived bathed in Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss and Carl Orff. Among his friends always present at home, from where they were withdrawing late at night, were his wife, philosopher Belkiss Silveira Barbuy, philosopher Vicente Ferreira da Silva and his wife, poet and translator Dora Ferreira da Silva, the engineer, philosopher and immortal of the Paulista Academy of Letters, Milton Vargas, philosopher Portuguese and one of the founders of the University of Brasilia, Eudoro de Sousa, the poet Paulo Bomfim (who says he found the title of his famous book, "Transfiguration", after hearing one night, in Barbuy's house, the symphonic poem "Death and Transfiguration" by Strauss), the poet Mário Chamie, the philosopher and theologian Adolpho Crippa, the philosopher Jessy Santos and the Catholic traditionalist teacher and philosopher José Pedro Galvão de Sousa.

Heraldo Barbuy, "striking personality of fulgurant intelligence and superb human virtues", in the words of the humanist thinker Jessy Santos, was, furthering the words of Jessy, a "fervent Catholic", "a religious man in the most authentic sense of the term" and "an extreme family father in zeal". He held several conferences and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy, collaborating in the Brazilian Journal of Philosophy, of whose writing board he was a member. He also collaborated in the magazine and newspaper "Reconquista", traditionalist periodicals directed respectively by José Pedro Galvão de Sousa and Clovis Lema Garcia, in magazines such as "Clima", of which he was one of the founders, "Diálogo", "Convivium" and "Problemas Brasileiros" and in newspapers such as "Correio Paulistano", "O Estado de S. Paulo", "A Gazeta" and "Folha da Manhã". He was also editor of the "Revista da Universidade de São Paulo" and the newspaper "A Notícia", in Joinville, Santa Catarina.

As a professor, Heraldo Barbuy taught disciplines such as History, French, French Literature and Economic Sociology at Bandeirantes, Pan American and Rio Branco colleges, at the Faculty of Philosophy Sedes Sapientiae, at the Faculty of Cassican Líbero Journalism, at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of São Paulo and at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation. He also gave several lectures and conferences in cultural centers of the White Eagle Movement.

Barbuy – that "man of the 'Black Forest', being cosmic" who went "to his death reading Novalis, Hoelderlin and Rilke, listening to Beethoven, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Carl Orff", in Paul Bomfim's words – bequeathed philosophical essays of the carat of "The problem of being" (1950) and "Marxism and Religion" (1963). In this last work, he demonstrated that Marxism constitutes, above and above all, a heresy of Christianity, being the Marxist conception of man no more than "the degeneration of the Christian conception of man". In the 1980s, conviviality, directed by Adolpho Crippa, published an anthology by Heraldo Barbuy entitled "The problem of being and other essays".

The written work of Heraldo Barbuy, in the words of José Pedro Galvão de Sousa, "was far from exhausting the treasure of reflections that over the years he was accumulating on the great problems of the existence and destiny of man", and "those who had the chance to know him closely and deprive him of his conviviality well know how much the content of his rich inner world exceeded the dimension of the written legacies by him to posterity."

Bibliography

Own Works

• Beco da cachaça. São Paulo: Emp. Ed. J. Fagundes, 1937. 267 p.    
• Zaratustra morreu. São Paulo: Ed. e Publ. Brasil, 1938. 138 p.    
• Maria Antonieta, biografia e história. São Paulo: Ed. e Publ. Brasil, 1939. 187 p.    
• Filosofia da forma e metafísica da arte. São Paulo, 1939.    
• A vida espetacular de Mirabeau. São Paulo: Ed. Cultura do Brasil, 1940. 269 p.    
• As origens da crise contemporânea. São Paulo: Ed. Oceano, 1943. 293 p.    
• O problema do ser. São Paulo: Martins, 1950. 99 p. (Tese para o concurso da cadeira de Filosofia da USP).    
• Sumo bem e suma riqueza. (Separata do Anuário da Fac. de Fil. “Sedes Sapientiae”da PUC-SP, 1953).    
• Sobre a crise do senso comum. [s. l.], 1956.    
• Cultura e processo técnico. São Paulo, 1961. 145 p.    
• A eternidade e o tempo. (Separata do Anuário da Fac. de Fil. “Sedes Sapientiae”da PUC-SP, 1961-62).    
• Marxismo e religião. São Paulo: Dominus Editora, 1963. 2ª ed. São Paulo: Convívio, 1977. 103 p.    
• Lineamentos para uma sociologia econômica. São Paulo, 1965. 163 p. (Tese de livre docência).    
• As implicações sociais do progresso. São Paulo, 1967. 88 p.    
• O problema do ser e outros ensaios. Prefácio Gilberto de Melo Kujawski. São Paulo: Convívio, 1984. 291 p. (Biblioteca do pensamento brasileiro. Textos, 2). 

Works about the author

• BARBUY, Belkiss Silveira. Heraldo Barbuy: uma apresentação. Revista Brasileira de Filosofia, São Paulo, v. 35. n. 139, p. 292-300, jul./set. 1985.
• BOMFIM, Paulo. Heraldo Barbuy. Diário de São Paulo, São Paulo, 21 jan. 1979.
• KUJAWSKI, Gilberto de Mello. Heraldo Barbuy. Jornal da Tarde, São Paulo, 19 jan. 1979. Heraldo Barbuy e sua maestria cultural. In: BARBUY, Heraldo. O problema do ser e outros ensaios. São Paulo : Convívio, 1984. p. xi-xx. Heraldo Barbuy. O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo, 19 jan. 1997.
• MELO, Luis Correia. Dicionário de autores paulistas. São paulo, 1954. p. 82.
• MENEZES, Raimundo de. Dicionário literário brasileiro. São Paulo : Saraiva, 1969. v. 1, p. 174-175.
• SANTOS, Jessy. In Memoriam: Heraldo Barbuy (1914-1979). Revista Brasileira de Filosofia, São Paulo, v. 29, n. 113, p. 3-6, jan./mar. 1979.
• SOUSA, José Pedro Galvão de. Heraldo Barbuy: o senso comum e o senso do mistério. Revista Brasileira de Filosofia, São Paulo, v. 29, n. 116, p. 375-396, out./dez. 1979.
• VIEIRA, Dorival Teixeira. Heraldo Barbuy filósofo social e educador. Problemas brasileiros, São Paulo, v. 16, n. 172. p. 25-33, fev. 1979.

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