Formação jurídica e colonialismo: uma abordagem histórico-literária e os desafios à formação humanista

Abstract

Based on the category of epistemic colonialism, a concept derived from decolonial studies in the social sciences, the present work sought to analyze legal education in Brazil today, through a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, starting from the historical context in which the first law faculties were developed, characterized mainly by a hegemonic elite and guided by its own liberal model, with a conservative character. Then, based on the method of researching law in literature, it was sought in the life and work of the writer Lima Barreto, to identify in his narratives the symbolic imaginary around the figure of the bachelors, and to what extent this mold, throughout the time, the culture of bookish and ornamental scholarship of graduates. Finally, taking care to relate the colonized knowledge, especially in its most modern version, with practices adopted in the educational process of legal professionals, pointing out their failures to promote humanistic education, in the radical sense of the term, and proposing alternatives for its transformation.