Limites da violência estatal legítima: a defesa da sociedade em face da violência estatal ilegítima

Abstract

In this study we discuss violence in society, its psychological genesis, its relation to Hannah Arendt’s theories on the emptiness of thought, to Sam Keen’s “consensual paranoia”, the anomie discussed by Norbert Elias and John Scotson, its essentiality and its manipulation by the State, which holds the monopoly of its legitimate use. We equally approach deviations that occur in the legitimate use of State violence and the habitual recipients of this illegitimate violence, drawing a parallel with the enemy’s penal right. The entire theoretical framework of State violence and its political use is close to the theories of State of Exception according to production, especially Agamben’s and Arendt’s, which opens an opportunity for visualization of the current Brazilian institutional framework and some paradigmatic cases around the subject. Furthermore we seek the enumeration of reasonable instruments of defense against illegitimate State violence available to the social groups, which will allow a stable political scene, with emphasis on the importance of civil society and the position of civil disobedience in this scenario.