CARL SCHMITT X HANS KELSEN: DEFENDER OR SEIGNIOR OF THE CONSTITUTION?

Authors

  • Roberto Bueno Pinto Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i3.42346

Keywords:

Carl Schmitt. Hans Kelsen. Judicial Review. Weimar Republic. Dictatorship.

Abstract

The political crises of the contemporary democracies find their explanation in the past arguments composed by detractors of the parliamentarian democratic theory and practice. The debate between Schmitt and Kelsen on the protector of the Constitution and the (il)limitation, which must characterize the exercise of its power, contains one of the juridical and political reasons that exceeds its own time. We suggest that reason still beats and fulfills one of the many grooves of the contemporary democracy’s crisis, i.e., the unfinished debate on the supremacy of law over politics or politics over law, or still, the supremacy of the technique over the world of life (Lebenswelt) or, instead, the world of life over any type of regulation turned to assure the liberties. Starting from that premise this article looks to recognize – aside the self-perception of each author about his theories – who really support a theory composed by a defender, and who by a seignior of the Constitution.

Author Biography

Roberto Bueno Pinto, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Professor Adjunto III da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia no Curso de Graduação (Teoria do Estado e Democracia; Filosofia do Direito, Filosofia Política). Pós-Doutor em Filosofia do Direito e do Estado (UNIVEM / 2015). Doutor em Filosofia do Direito pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR / 2011). Mestre em Filosofia Política pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFCE / 2012). Mestre em Filosofia do Direito e Teoria do Estado pela Fundação de Ensino Eurípides Soares da Rocha (2006). Especialista em Ciência Política e Direito Constitucional pelo Centro de Estudos Constitucionais de Madrid (1994). Graduado em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas (1992).

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Published

2015-10-21

How to Cite

Pinto, R. B. (2015). CARL SCHMITT X HANS KELSEN: DEFENDER OR SEIGNIOR OF THE CONSTITUTION?. Revista Da Faculdade De Direito UFPR, 60(3), 103–136. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i3.42346

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 3 (2015)

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