2014-07-082014-07-082006SARMENTO, Jorge Alberto Ramos. Direito e modernidade: a perspectiva teórica de Jürgen Habermas. 2006. 110 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Belém, 2006. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/5276This paper aims to show the law and modernity ideas under Jürgen Habermas perspective, which establishes a new model of reason as paradigm of overcome the crisis instituted at modernity, which reflects the legitimacy crisis of law itself. This is a bibliographic work, based upon Habermas publications on the matter, as well as wellknowed commenteres of this author. The start point was the law conception developed by great classic sociological thinkers, with emphasis on the diagnosis role of Max Weber, centred upon the instrumental rationality idea, criticized by Habermas for lacking greater conceptual precision at modernity pathologies identification. The Habermas diagnosis tries to accomplish that goal by a reconstructive work over modernity and law most important conceptions, considering the idea of communicative reason.porAcesso AbertoSociologia do direitoHabermas, Jürgen, 1929-RazãoFilosofia do direitoDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO::TEORIA DO DIREITO::SOCIOLOGIA JURIDICA