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O Estado Laico E A Emergência De Uma Nova Religião Civil, Douglas Antônio Rocha Pinheiro Dec 2011

O Estado Laico E A Emergência De Uma Nova Religião Civil, Douglas Antônio Rocha Pinheiro

Douglas Antônio Rocha Pinheiro

Re-meaning civil religion, placing it half-way between the local values of a given legal-political community and moral’s universal intentions, besides not jeopardizing the conquests of the laical State, can provide solidarity bonds between strangers. Such bonds, submitted to the appraisal of human rights and democracy, may become an opportune substitute to the disbelieved concept of nation, fostering reflexive ethics by means of a discursive rationality.


Por Uma Teoria Da Narratologia Jurídica: De Que Modo A Teoria Literária Pode Servir À Compreensão E Crítica Do Direito, Douglas Antônio Rocha Pinheiro Jan 2010

Por Uma Teoria Da Narratologia Jurídica: De Que Modo A Teoria Literária Pode Servir À Compreensão E Crítica Do Direito, Douglas Antônio Rocha Pinheiro

Douglas Antônio Rocha Pinheiro

From historian Carlo Ginzburg’s use of dialogism in the analysis of inquisitorial papers, especially in the "benandanti" case, the article aims to discuss the possibility of a legal reading based on the categories related to literary theory, above all those Mikhail Bakhtin holds, as well as their capacity to provide a new reflection on the legal phenomenon.