Book, Reason of state and other states of reason[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Following the formation of the modern democratic State throughout history, we see how the ever-increasing expansion of human and citizen rights that it programmatically defends has been limited more and more by a restrictive concept - that of the reason of State. In fact, this resource, sometimes constitutional or cyclical, serves to provide not only circumstantially legitimate means of state and social defense, but also to provide political machines and, above all, totalitarian ideologies, with absolute and destructive power of all. human rights that have been the basis of all genocides and massacres committed from the 19th century to the present day, in the name of a supposed collective and/or State identity and reason. It is about this process, in its foundations and in its developments, that in these essays gathered here, Roberto Romano critically reflects and discusses. 'Reason of State and Other States of Reason' brings to the reader the thoughts and vision of a philosopher and professor of ethics, whose presence in the debate of Brazilian and international ideas and problems has embodied in our country a lucid and combative philosophical position, political and ideological in which reason lays bare the unreasons of the 'Rason of State'.' - J. Guinsburg