Ideology and Law Abstract In the presented work, I examine in depth the concept of ideology in its historical changes. Afterward, I relate these various forms to law. My work aims to analyze how law and ideology interact and whether there is an inherent relationship between them. I am therefore concerned with answering the question whether law is ideological, or under what conditions law and the application of law are influenced by ideology. The work is divided into three parts. In the first part, I address the notion of ideology. Here I examine how Karl Marx and his followers grasped and elaborated on this notion. I show the transformation of the Marxist conception of ideology in the works of Lenin, Gramsci and Althusser. In the second chapter of the first part, I present a different, historically relevant tradition of understanding ideology that I call, for the purposes of this work, conservative-democratic. In the second discussed tradition, I describe the ideas of Arendt, Popper, Scruton, and Pithart. Subsequently, I compare the two negative concepts of ideology to each other. The second part is devoted to how these negative concepts of ideology can be applied in legal theory. In the first chapter, I focus on the Critical Legal Studies movement, whose proponents were inspired by the previously mentioned...

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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar os aspectos ideológicos que se revelam no discurso jurídico quanto ao poder transformador do direito sobre a realidade social. Para tanto, será utilizado como principal exemplo o preceito constitucional da função social da propriedade rural, a fim de revelar o modo ambíguo como preceitos de transformação social participam da função que o direito, por sua vez, exerce na sociedade, a um só tempo estimulando e limitando as reivindicações. / This work aims to investigate the ideological aspects revealed at the legal speech about the transforming power of law on the social reality. Therefore, will be utilizated as main example the constitucional rule of social function of rural property, in order to reveal the ambiguous manner that rules of social transformation take part in the function that the law, by its turn, exerts on society, at the same time stimulating and limiting the demands.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar os aspectos ideológicos que se revelam no discurso jurídico quanto ao poder transformador do direito sobre a realidade social. Para tanto, será utilizado como principal exemplo o preceito constitucional da função social da propriedade rural, a fim de revelar o modo ambíguo como preceitos de transformação social participam da função que o direito, por sua vez, exerce na sociedade, a um só tempo estimulando e limitando as reivindicações. / This work aims to investigate the ideological aspects revealed at the legal speech about the transforming power of law on the social reality. Therefore, will be utilizated as main example the constitucional rule of social function of rural property, in order to reveal the ambiguous manner that rules of social transformation take part in the function that the law, by its turn, exerts on society, at the same time stimulating and limiting the demands.