Name: SUZANA DE ALVARENGA LOURETE
Publication date: 29/05/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| BRUNELA VIEIRA DE VINCENZI | Presidente |
| ÉRICO ANDRADE MARQUES DE OLIVEIRA | Examinador Externo |
| HALINA DE MACEDO LEAL | Examinador Externo |
| MARCELO MARTINS BARREIRA | Examinador Interno |
| RICARDO CORREA DE ARAUJO | Examinador Interno |
Summary: The research, in a very general way, focuses on the problem of rationality in recognition
and justice theories. Based on the tradition of the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School,
is analyzed the discursive ethics developed in the Theory of Communicative Action, by
Jürgen Habermas. In particular, supported by the logical concepts of identity and
autonomy, Habermas ends up idealizing a self-referential communication that is not very
open to the otherness of other cosmoperceptions about reality. Thus, when we think about
community life (politics of the commons) we leave aside interpretations and interactions
that do not submit to the principles of Western logic, as expressed in liberal theories. The
foundations of this abstraction are in that bourgeois tradition, whose epistemic
valorization privileges the processes of rationality, of an autonomous and authentically
human structure of thought for interpreting Reality and, consequently, of organizing the
Lifeworld. As a colonial legacy, the way of doing critical theory is guided by logical
analyzes of social construction, human rights and History itself. Therefore, the sources
for its claims to normative legitimacy are abstract concepts, extracted from the
Enlightenment idealizations of a human proud of Nature. This structure of thinking is
extremely appropriate to capitalism, especially in its current stage. The climatic
consequences of the Anthropocene combined with the virtualization of our intersubjective
relationships are not unrelated to the evasion of collective spaces and the loss of meaning
in political life. Therefore, this research seeks a methodology that is capable of exploring
this literate world of Western philosophy inside out; in an attempt to understand how
silenced ways of life are inscribed in time/history as “unsuspected philosophies” and
manifest themselves in the Lifeword through Enchantment. Finally, it is argued that the
political management of affections is not guided by the liberal ideology of dialectical
recognition, but by the affective capacity of a collective and situated subjectivity, whose
consciousness-of-us is rooted in Belonging. This time, the Ethics of Enchantment
manifests itself in the Lifeword as modes of everyday nanoresistance and the
implementation of Justice.
