“…The recurrence of this theme appears through the literature and the object of study in a dual aspect. On one hand, in the realm of ideas, it entailed a nuanced examination to reconstruct the specificity of the approach and understanding of the public sphere by the essayism of the 1920s and 1930s, namely its emergence, crystallization, reproduction, and analytical method (Fernandes, 1958(Fernandes, , 1977Coutinho, 1997;Candido, 2000Candido, , 2006El-Dine, 2019;Martins, 2019). On the other hand, the centrality of this theme can be explored as a phenomenon in which fundamental dilemmas of the configuration of the Brazilian public sphere and its private counterpart become apparent, highlighting historical difficulties brought about by the emergence of the modern State in peripheral environments (Tavolaro, 2005;Maia, 2011;.…”