Sistema jurídico autopoiético, reificação e pena : uma reflexão crítica acerca dos imperativos sistêmicos reificantes que colonizam o direito penal a partir de Niklas Luhmann e Axel Honneth

Abstract

The present dissertation, developed in the research line Violence, Crime and Public Safety, is a critic reflection about the systemic imperatives that colonize the legal (criminal) system appearing as reifying social pathologies. For this, at first, we propose an analysis of systemic functional Niklas Luhmann's proposal, which we believe have the potential to reveal certain pathologies underlying the present society, especially when his speech is projected to legal and criminal matters. In this perspective, the critical theory of Axel Honneth appears in a second moment as a fruitful theoretical framework for the demonstration that functionalism-systemic effectively reveals expressively social pathologies in the form of reification. Reification, understood according to Honneth as forgetting of recognition, manifests itself in a particularly harmful way in the sphere of criminal law - in particular, it seems, at the time of application of the criminal penalty, which is taken in this work as a practical expression in which the reification unfolds and takes shape.