Juridicização da história e totalitarismo

Abstract

This article problematizes the political discourses in the Institutional Acts of the military dictatorship, considered as historical sources, in order to analyze the conditions of possibility of the political power of the Brazilian government during the military coup in 1964. I conduct this analysis considering the notions of law-making violence and law-preserving violence on Jacques Derrida’s Force of Law. The aim of this work is to
understand, in political philosophical terms, the political transitional movement during the military coup in Brazil, considering the question of legitimacy of the government in a context of totalitarian revolution, in order to analyze how thinking politics as a matter of legality could lead, in some sense, to a juridicalization of history.