Pos-structuralism and the disruption of metanarratives about constitutional meaning

• Autor(a) principal: Azevedo, Rosaly
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Bussinguer, Elda Coelho de Azevedo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Direitos Humanos e Democracia
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.unijui.edu.br/index.php/direitoshumanosedemocracia/article/view/13874
• topic: post-structuralism; metanarratives; popular constitutionalism; constitutional dialogues; democracy; pós-estruturalismo; metanarrativas; constitucionalismo popular; diálogos constitucionais; democracia

This article intend to reflect on the influence of post-structuralist thinking on Law, with emphasis on disruptions of constitutional meta-narratives of judicial supremacy, justice as the only correct answer and Democracy as a political system of majorities. For this purpose, the historical-dialectical method was used, resorting to bibliographical research and secondary sources. Initially, the study analyzed post-structuralism as a movement of thought that broke with the great discourses that marked modernity and proposed new readings on social, political, economic and cultural realities. Then, it addressed how post-structuralist thought, by removing structures and systems from the center, spread knowledge in different directions and influenced constitutionalism, opening space for theories that understand the decision-making process as a dialogic, continuous and creative relationship between society and constituted powers. In sequence, he presented reflections on the disbelief in the democratic ideal, a consequence of the abyss between real and ideal democracy. Finally, it concluded that the transformation of Democracy as an unfulfilled promise, as a future, occurs from the perspective of promoting education for citizenship, sharing a plural power, with the participation of individuals from different identities and interest groups, opening spaces of discursiveness to minorized and vulnerable groups.