A descolonização intelectual

: Albert Camus e o direito à democracia

Abstract

Aware of the advantages for Law that an interdisciplinary approach provides, we propose, with this dissertation, to highlight the relationship between Art, Law and International Relations, through the analysis of the work The Stranger by Albert Camus. To that extent, and considering other works by the author, such as his philosophical and journalistic essays, we developed a new concept - Intellectual Decolonization -, with the aim of giving our contribution to one of the controversial questions of International Law: The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples and the possible existence of a Right to Democracy. Thus, by creating parallels between the literal and the metaphysical part of the concept of Decolonization, as well as between the past and the present, we developed the literal contribution of intellectuals to the process of decolonization in Algeria in the past, while exploring the benefit of an intellectual decolonization in the present. From such a process, we extract the conviction of the existence of a right to democracy in the metaphysical field, but not in the literal. For this reason, and due to the consequences analyzed, we conclude that the creation of a right to democracy is inevitable in the long run.

Date of Award	11 Jun 2021
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	José Azeredo Lopes (Supervisor) & Maria de Fátima Marinho (Co-Supervisor)