Democracia e Totalitarismo

Resumo: As notas a seguir traduzem a exposio inicial sobre o tema Democracia e totalitarismo, preparado para o eixo poltico do projeto de extenso Caf Filosfico, ainda sob o calor da tese de doutorado que defendi meses antes, com o ttulo Do fim da experincia ao fim do jurdico: percurso de Giorgio Agamben. Nesta ocasio, com o objetivo de propiciar um momento de recuperao e problematizao de noes que costumeiramente tomamos como dadas, procurei aproximar os fenmenos polticos compreendidos por democracia e totalitarismo. Optei, assim, por priorizar as principais caractersticas conceituais dos regimes democrticos e totalitrios, com a finalidade de evidenciarmos suas diferenas e, quem sabe, percebermos que, nas suas realizaes factuais, pontos de intercesso e indeterminao podem ser identificados. Summary: The following notes translate the initial exposition about Democracy and totalitarianism, prepared for the political axis of the extension project Caf Filosfico, still under the influences of the thesis written by me just some months before, entitled From the end of the experience to the end of the juridical: course of Giorgio Agamben. In this occasion, aiming to promote a moment in order to recuperate and put into question notions which we usually accept as definitively given, I tried to approximate the political occurrences called democracy and totalitarianism. Here, we shall work with the main conceptual features of the two mentioned regimes, apprehending their differences; however, in that way, we may also be able to realize that, in their factual versions, points of interception and indetermination could be identified. Keywords: Political Philosophy, Democracy, Totalitarianism