A "obra" da ideologia e a ideologia na obra de Claude Lefort

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ID5824842
AuthorsRenata Schlumberger Schevisbiski (0000-0003-4289-9395, Schlumberger (British Virgin Islands), corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-08-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.8.2013.tde-18102013-143818
OpenAlexW2548610300
LanguagePT
Citations received1
References cited11

This thesis investigates the work of Claude Lefort (1924Lefort ( -2010) ) aiming to demonstrate that ideology is seminal to understand both his thought and his theory of democracy.We presume that ideology is not merely a privileged object of interpretation in his writings, since his thinking, his work on the writings of Machiavelli and Marx, and his theorizing on democracy and totalitarianism are based on the effort to reveal the meaning of ideological representations, of certainties.Ideology helps us to understand the statute of his discourse, which interrogates ideology and knows how to be inhabited by it and, at the same time, doesn't veer away from it.By being entangled in it, his discourse seeks the constancy of an interrogation on its latent content and the denials it pronounces.We defend therefore that, contrary to all points of views of certainty, Lefort's thought points to a reflection on the ambiguities of democracy; he is preoccupied with the paradoxical aspects of that form of society that make it shift toward totalitarianism.This thesis features two different lines of discussion.The first one seeks to understand the "work" of ideology in the work of Lefort, i.e., it is based on the assumption that his thought processes developed together with his pathway aiming to open new avenues for critical reflection that may question ideology.At this point, we assume that his philosophy -as the thinking of the political -can be understood as one which developed as criticism, the deciphering and unveiling of ideology.The second line discusses ideology in the work of Lefort and aims to understand the construction of his reflection and the meaning he gives it, which implies taking into account the authors and events that influenced that process, as well as the dynamics of his own intellectual production, i.e., the moments ideology appears as something latent in his articles and those where it becomes an explicit object of discussion.We suggest that ideology permeates his entire work, even when Lefort reflects on a central theme of his studies: the democratic invention.To demonstrate that, we discuss the political effects and consequences of ideology on democracy, because although the latter is established by interrogation, driven by the principle of permanent invention and reinvention, by indeterminacy, it is also petrified, crystallized and defined by the ideological discourse

Certainty · Criticism · Democracy · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory · Political Theory and Influence

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