Democracy, populism and pluralism - a conceptual exploration from Carl Schmitt

• Grant number: 21/12391-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2022
• End date: March 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
• Principal Investigator: Júlio César Casarin Barroso Silva
• Grantee: Gustavo Henrique Rodrigues Cruz
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project has as central themes issues that are in the contemporary political scenario: populism, anti-pluralism and democratic crisis. We propose to investigate the political thinking that shapes the populist movement that has caused the erosion, if not the complete destruction, of established democratic constitutional regimes. For this, we assume the provisional validity of Jan-Werner Müller's idea: populism would be essentially anti-pluralist. Then, we will make a detailed analysis of Carl Schmitt's political thought, in order to explore the relevance of Schmitt's political thought as a tool for understanding the current populist wave.