A democracia participativa à luz da Constituição de 1988: para uma aproximação entre o direito de liberdade, em Philip Petit, e o retorno à ágora, em Zigmunt Bauman

Abstract

The 2013 street protests and the realization regarding the lack of power by the general public, while seemingly contradictory, encompass the complementarity relation that seems to be the hallmark of modern societies. In this article we analyze the alternative of returning to the agora, a space which is not public nor private, but public and private, where collective solutions are developed to address individual problems, treated by Zigmund Bauman, and the constant demands of Philip Petit’s theory regarding liberty, which is seen as condition for one to be considered responsible, aiming at offering a more promising horizon to be trodden by contemporary society. In the face of the nature of the proposed objectives and the authors referred in the analytic process the dialectic approach was used. By combining the two aforementioned aspects, we envisage a rich constitutional and sociological perspective, one that allows the individuals, in the scope of discursive control and the exercise of political freedom, to effectively assume the condition of protagonists, dialoguing permanently with the political project whose bases are fixed in the Constitution