THE RECEPTION OF DECONSTRUCTION IN LEGAL STUDIES: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

• Autor(a) principal: Magalhães, José Antonio Rego
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Magalhães, Juliana Neuenschwander
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/44177
• topic: Filosofia do Direito; Pensamento Jurídico Crítico.; Desconstrução. Jacques Derrida. Direito. Violência. Teoria crítica.; Deconstruction. Jacques Derrida. Law. Violence. Critical theory.

This paper describes the reception of Jacques Derrida’s thought, known under the title “deconstruction”, in legal studies. As the reception of Derrida’s thoughts had its place mainly in English language academia, it is through the discussion of a selection of notable authors in that tradition that this paper develops. We adopted deconstruction as a form of reading and writing, while questioning the possibility of making it a method in the strict sense. We begin by introducing the notion of deconstruction. We discussed different modes of deconstruction’s reception in legal studies, such as Critical Legal Studies and other, more liberal authors. Finally, we observed that this reception, in many cases, incurred in problems, becoming itself an object to deconstruct. That being given, we concluded that deconstruction therefore remains as a challenge to the field of legal studies. Finally, we call attention to the deeply ethical and political character of that challenge.