Modernidade e o direito: a busca por um conteúdo possível

Abstract

The present article has as object the question of Law as science front a society that reveals itself post-modern. This text deal with the deep transformations that the society comes undergoing into the rise of the new millennium, as well as the outcomes of those changes on the sciences, principally, above Law. There’s a presentation from the science’s problems that affect Law, as the absence by one possible content possible and the exaggerating formality, showing how, during the history, various judicial currents tried affirm how should be the contents of Law, without, however, obtain success. Lastly, the article presents the post-positivism as a possible alternative to Law in the post-modernity.