HISTORY’S “MUSICAL CHAIRS”

State and exteriority in two Paulo Eduardo Arante’s texts

Abstract

Drawing a common line of argument between two texts of the Brazilian philosopher Paulo Eduardo Arantes, this article seeks to scrutinize the historical and concrete consequences of the relations between interiority and exteriority of conceptual and political formalizations, between the "inside" and the "outside" of these formalizations. For this, it draws the parallel between Universal History and State that is found in the chapter "A Prosa da História", which composes version for publication of his doctoral thesis "Hegel: a ordem do tempo". Then, it associates this parallel, making the necessary reservations, to the historical and concrete line present in the approach, made by Arantes, from the book "The Nomos of the earth", by the jurist Carl Schmitt, in the text "O mundo-fronteira". With this association, the article concludes that, in Arantes' work, this relationship between interiority and exteriority is established as a mutual constitution in which violence is presented.