Abstract
The following article aims to demonstrate that totalitarian elements – such as a lack of legal protection and an absolute subjection of the individual to sovereign power – may persist in regimes considered to be democratic, revealing a gradual resurgence of state intervention in public liberties. The subject of terrorism is approached by means of an analysis of Brazilian Law 13.260/16, known as the “anti-terrorism law”. We seek to demonstrate the relationship between totalitarianism and terrorism, mainly by analyzing the types of criminal offense outlined by the law, whose scope has the effect of relegating the individual to the absolute power of the sovereign, in which they are stripped of any mechanism of legal protection. Within such a scenario, the legislation itself has the potential to be used as an extra-judicial instrument rather than a genuine means of combating terrorism. We consider theories proposed by Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt, philosophers to have analyzed aspects of twentieth-century totalitarianism from different yet complementary perspectives, in terms of the characteristics and mechanisms to have contributed to its development, as well as the location, use and role of the individual in such a context.
Highlights
La Ley Antiterrorismo brasileña: reinterpretación del totalitarismo a partir de Giorgio Agamben y Hannah Arendt Resumen El presente artículo tiene por objeto demostrar que elementos totalitarios, como la inexistencia de protección legal y la absoluta sujeción del individuo al poder soberano, pueden existir en regímenes considerados democráticos en los cuales se observa un progresivo recrudecimiento de la intervención del Estado en las libertades públicas
Brazil’s anti-terrorism law: re-readings of totalitarianism based on Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt Abstract The following article aims to demonstrate that totalitarian elements – such as a lack of legal protection and an absolute subjection of the individual to sovereign power – may persist in regimes considered to be democratic, revealing a gradual resurgence of state intervention in public liberties
The subject of terrorism is approached by means of an analysis of Brazilian Law 13.260/16, known as the “anti-terrorism law”
Summary
La Ley Antiterrorismo brasileña: reinterpretación del totalitarismo a partir de Giorgio Agamben y Hannah Arendt Resumen El presente artículo tiene por objeto demostrar que elementos totalitarios, como la inexistencia de protección legal y la absoluta sujeción del individuo al poder soberano, pueden existir en regímenes considerados democráticos en los cuales se observa un progresivo recrudecimiento de la intervención del Estado en las libertades públicas. Questiona-se se elementos totalitários, como a ausência de proteção legal e a total sujeição do indivíduo à vontade do poder soberano, são passíveis de materialização em regimes tidos como democráticos, e se, mais especificamente no caso do Brasil, a Lei Antiterrorismo contém dispositivos legais potencialmente acolhedores desse poder absoluto, de modo que a análise será situada no contexto maior da biopolítica, e não à luz da dogmática penal.
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