A (in)discernibilidade entre democracia e estado de exceção no Brasil contemporâneo: uma leitura a partir de Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

Brazilian democracy was constructed in view of an authoritarian tradition, which does not disappear with the simple change of legal-political status. The present article aims, in the face of this context, to analyze the spaces of exception that parasitize the national political and juridical scenario, in which the indiscernibility between democracy and authoritarianism becomes a rule. The proposed problematization starts from the idea that a democratic political-juridical system can be easily used for the accomplishment of authoritarian purposes. Hence the hypothesis raised: the need to confront the whole tradition by suspending the given and inherited judgments, in order to avoid any possibility of “concealment” of the exception under the easy formulas of the politically correct and the “democratic.” The first section of the text has a conceptual character that is intended to fix the theoretical framework proposed for the analysis, in which the concept of a state of exception in the work of Giorgio Agamben will be presented and discussed; the second aims to contextualize the agambenian theory about the permanent exception from the Brazilian post-impeachment context of President Dilma Rousseff. The research was envisaged using the phenomenological method.