Praxis as transformation

ethics, politics, and law between subject and nature

Abstract

https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2024/87135.

Given a diagnosis of the multiple crises, which involves a socio-environmental dimension, it is the task of a transformative political project to turn its attention to the different forms of social regulation, which forge the social framework of our ways of producing and experiencing relations with the world, whether in culture or nature. This article introduces the dossier ‘Law and Praxis 15 years: Perspectives for the horizon of the critique of law’ and proposes a political-philosophical reflection on the role of law as an institutional dimension of the multiple crises and the possibility of articulating alternatives.  To this purpose, the paper intends to contribute to the foundations of the concept of the philosophy of praxis based on Gramsci's work and its reception in the Brazilian and international debates. It then proposes a new gaze to the philosophy of praxis in dialogue with the philosophy of liberation, from an ethical perspective of radical alterity - under the inflexion of the ecological turn - to overcome the traditional concept of the subject of rights. Finally, the paper concludes with an analysis of the role of law as a field of disputes, with the aim of contributing to an approach to the legal phenomenon that suggests opening up to the imagination of a future that integrates humans and nature, beyond a limited view of social relations from egocentric and anthropocentric paradigms.