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      O formalista expiatório: leituras impuras de Kelsen no Brasil Translated title: The formalist escape goat: impure readings of Kelsen in Brazil

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          Neste artigo, argumento que a caracterização de Kelsen como um autor formalista e positivista (comum em contextos de recepção da sua obra, como o Brasil) só pode ser considerada plausível dependendo do sentido em que as expressões "formalismo" e "positivismo" são empregadas. Por um lado, mostro por que Kelsen não era um formalista metodológico (i.e., que caracterizava o raciocínio jurídico como dedutivo) e por que a associação entre positivismo jurídico e esse tipo de formalismo é problemática. Por outro, defendo que o que Stanley Paulson chama de crítica de formalismo como esvaziamento - já dirigida contra Kelsen na Alemanha no início do século XX - deve ser levado a sério em seus próprios termos, ou seja, como uma perspectiva metodológica que também pode ser valiosa para investigar a natureza do direito. Com o auxílio dessas análises, é possível desfazer a caricatura que ainda inspira certas visões da obra de Kelsen no Brasil.

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          The characterization of Kelsen as formalist or legal positivist is very common in contexts of reception of his work, such as Brazil. In this paper, I argue that whether or not such depiction can be considered acceptable depends on the sense in which the terms "formalism" and "legal positivism" are used. On the one hand, I hope to show why Kelsen was not a methodological formalist (i.e., someone who conceives legal reasoning as deductive reasoning) and why the linking between legal positivism and this kind of formalism is problematic. On the other hand, I claim that what Stanley Paulson calls the charge of formalism qua emptiness - which had already been addressed at Kelsen in Germany in the beginning of the XXth century - should be taken seriously in its own terms, i.e., as a methodological approach which can also be fruitful to investigate the nature of law. With the help of these analyses, it is possible to dispel the caricature that still inspires some views of Kelsen's work in Brazil.

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                rdgv
                Revista Direito GV
                Rev. direito GV
                Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Direito (São Paulo )
                2317-6172
                June 2014
                : 10
                : 1
                : 245-268
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                [1 ] Fundação Getúlio Vargas Brazil
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                S1808-24322014000100010
                10.1590/S1808-24322014000100010
                41bd2201-6f8f-4f93-882e-db14884e9f36

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                General law
                Kelsen,formalism,legal positivism,deductivism,descriptivism,formalismo,positivismo jurídico,dedutivismo,descritivismo

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