Open AccessDemocracia representativa: as críticas de Carl Schmitt
Author(s) -
Alexandre Franco de Sá
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
interthesis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1807-1384
DOI - 10.5007/1807-1384.2015v12n1p130
Subject(s) - mediation , representation (politics) , politics , democracy , michel foucault , epistemology , sociology , political science , humanities , philosophy , law , social science
The present text tries to show, on the one hand, the basis of Schmitt’s concept of representation. It shows how this concept is essentially linked with the concepts of mediation and decision. From this point, the article shows, on the other hand, how the concept of representation allows him to develop a political thought that is able to critically understand contemporary democratic societies’ fundamental problems