Machado de Assis and the modern legal imaginary in Brazil: contributions to the scientific development of legal positivism

Abstract

The text analyzes the legal-political imaginary of legal positivism in Brazil in interface with the literature by Machado de Assis. It recovers the main hermeneutical traditions and traces an evaluation of positivism in times of crisis.

Keywords

• escolas hermenêuticas
• positivismo jurídico
• literatura brasileira