LEFORT E A RESSIGNIFICAÇÃO DO VÍNCULO ENTRE DIREITOS HUMANOS E DEMOCRACIA

Abstract

The article seeks to present the place and singularity of Claude Lefort's (1924-2010) interpretation of the link between human rights and democracy, an interpretation created in the context of the totalitarian experience and the resistance it aroused in the 20th century. For that, we propose to characterize in general lines the historical and conceptual field in which the French thinker moves to overcome the ideological image of human rights, as denounced by Marx in On the Jewish Question. From the critical dialogue with Marx, a new key to reading political modernity emerges, proposed by Lefort not only to highlight the emancipatory potential of human rights, but also to point out ways of reinventing contemporary democracies. Finally, we will launch the hypothesis that the Lefortian interpretation is based on the resignification of socialism, not from a purely theoretical point of view, but under the impulse of resistance movements to the so-called "real socialism", with emphasis on the Hungarian Revolution (1956).