A verdade dos juristas: senso comum teórico e pré-compreensão – contribuição para uma hermenêutica crítica do (e no) direito

Abstract

The background question of this research aims at evincing if, considering the crisis of the modern critical tradition, it is still possible to advance in the field of the critical juridical thought. In relation to this question, it was necessary to trace an evaluation of the fundamental points of Western critical tradition, its exhaustion and its connections with the juridical thought. This process of general crisis in philosophy, in the social thought and in Law, called postmodern crisis, was a result of the exhaustion of the dominant epistemological matrix (consciousness metaphysics), which established the basis of the scientificist model. Besides, the critical thought itself was, paradoxically, marked by metaphysics since modernity. As a theoretical alternative, this research intended to establish dialogue with the critical genealogy (Foucault) and the philosophical hermeneutics (Gadamer), since these readings can indicate a more radical critique, that is, one addressed to the foundations of the model esta