Law’s Critical Science: Can One Talk About Criticism?

  • Zulmar Fachin Cesumar
  • Clara Heinzmann Cesumar

Abstract

The present work starts from the idea that the development of a new paradigm represents the construction of a new rationality about the Law and juridical teaching in Brazil. The traditional model of techno-formal rationality is replaced by a critical-interdisciplinary model of emancipating rationality. This rationality, without denying the traditional dogma, stimulates thought about the existence of Law linked to reality and the construction of a new theoretical-critical model of Law. Thus, this work brings as a result, the principle that the scope of a critical theory is the construction of mechanisms that can enable the transformation of society, based on the man that constitutes it. It is about the emancipation of the old alienated man, concluding that it is actually possible to think of a critical theory that can occur to a historical-social philosophy of reflex cognitive structure.

Author Biographies

Zulmar Fachin, Cesumar
Pós-Doutor em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito Universidade de Coimbra; Doutor em Direito do Estado pela Universidade Federal do Paraná – UFPR; Mestre em Direito pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina –UEL; Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina – UEL; Docente do Curso de Mestrado em Ciências Jurídicas do Centro Universitário de Maringá – CESUMAR; Docente do Curso de Mestrado em Direito Processual e Cidadania da Universidade Paranaense – UNIPAR.
Clara Heinzmann, Cesumar
Mestranda em Ciências Jurídicas pelo Centro Universitário de Maringá – CESUMAR.
Published
2008-07-01
Section
Doutrinas