scholarly journals Democracia contra as patologias da liberdade: poder e dominação em Franz L. Neumann

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
José Rodrigo Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Franz Neumann

Este artigo apresenta a construção conceitual de Franz Neumann elaborada no texto “O conceito de liberdade política”, cuja finalidade principal é diferenciar poder e dominação. Para Neumann, a teoria política deve consistir em uma reflexão sobre a efetivação da liberdade em formas legítimas de poder, as quais se caracterizam por garantir a efetivação da liberdade humana. A liberdade, na visão do autor, é composta de três elementos historicamente construídos, o jurídico, o cognitivo e o volitivo, os quais permitem identificar seis patologias da liberdade que resultam da valorização excessiva ou da desvalorização de cada um de seus elementos; respectivamente, autarquia e legalismo, medo e naturalização, alienação e voluntarismo. Com a utilização deste aparelho conceitual Neumann analisa problemas políticos concretos como o Macartismo que marcou os Estados Unidos dos anos 1950. 

The State of the Political

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Franz Neumann

This book offers a broad-ranging re-interpretation of the understanding of politics and the state in the writings of three major German thinkers, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann. It rejects the typical separation of these writers on the basis of their allegedly incompatible ideological positions, and suggests instead that once properly located in their historical context, the tendentious character of these interpretative boundaries becomes clear. The book interprets the conceptions of politics and the state in the writings of these three thinkers by means of an investigation of their adaptation and modification of particular German traditions of thinking about the state, or Staatsrechtslehre. Indeed, when the theoretical considerations of this state-legal theory are combined with their contemporary political criticism, a richer and more deeply textured account of the issues that engaged the attention of Weber, Schmitt and Neumann is possible. Thus, the broad range of subjects discussed in this book include parliamentarism and democracy in Germany, academic freedom and political economy, political representation, cultural criticism and patriotism, and the relationship between rationality, law, sovereignty and the constitution. The study attempts to restore a sense of proportion to the discussion of the three authors' writings, focusing on the extensive ideas that they shared rather than insisting on their necessary ideological separation. It is a detailed re-appraisal of a crucial moment in modern intellectual history, and highlights the profound importance of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt and Franz Neumann for the history of European ideas.

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