o silêncio das sereias: tempo, direito e violência ... - Domínio Público

ABSTRACT
This work is built upon the relationship between the categories of time, law and violence.
Trespass them and seeks in its developments, to interconnect them. It issues (among) his lines
another two themes that are inseparable from the confection of its texture: the language and
the alterity. On it is searched to establish an ongoing dialogue between these key concepts
throughout the text, in a way that they are tinting, either implicitly or explicitly in the
dissertation. The first part relates about time, it seeks to investigate the concepts of time in
their relationship with subjectivities, language and violence, it’s realized a reflection of how
this interacts with the work, the history and the narratives, among which the law is privileged.
In the second part the law is examined, in his practice to produce documents about the people,
such as archives and witnesses. Sequentially it is analyzed the paradoxes concerning the
citizenship and the (narration of the) nation. In the third part the violence is the concept
problematized, from the Walter Benjamin's text “Zur Kritik der Gewalt” (Critique of
Violence), the arguments that (previously) inspired parts of this essay are shown, like Georges
Sorel’s, and the (further) Derrida’s interpretation. It’s related, yet, on violence and the state of
exception in the debate between Benjamin and Schmitt. In the closing remarks it’s done an
interpretation of the Franz Kafka’s tale the “Silence of the Sirens”, which realizes a reference
to language and alterity and, by conclusion, an outcome of the narrative.
Keywords: time - law - violence - language - alterity.
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