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This paper aims to discuss Axel Honneth's book, The idea of socialism, published in 2015, considering John Dewey's Liberalism and social action (1935) and Democracy and education (1916). It will be examined a possible approximation between Honneth's socialism and Dewey's defense of a renascent liberalism. It will be suggested that Honneth's proposal is problematic due to an insufficient appropriation of Dewey's ideas, particularly those related to the role of education within the democratic will formation, upon which social cooperation rests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to present the concept of family as a sphere of democratic ethicity according to Axel Honneth, specifically, from the social-normative reconstruction developed in Das Recht der Freiheit (The freedom's right). Honneth reconstructs how the woman through the insertion in the labor market has won recognition and broke with an androcentric model of division of family tasks; analyzes the transition from the traditional model based on the marginalization of the female figure for a democratic model based on partnership and solidarity. The reconstruction of the normative model of democratic family is opposed to Hegelian naturalization of family relationships. Honneth understands that the family in its composition and its change has a strong cultural base, so that it can be legitimately composed by heterosexual couples, gay and adopted children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central theme of this article is the growing investment in combating crime by the current democratic governments in Brazil, which contributes to consolidate also among us, the figure of "punitive state." The current capitalist arrangement generalizes almost instantaneously across the globe, tying the success of the new economic businesses considering criminal policy. Accordingly, the punitive state characterizes an ambiguity that is symbolically the portrait of the contemporary political moment. Put another way, around this control, thoroughly contradictory concepts are mixed as democracy and authoritarianism. Present in recent sociological reflections of Loïc Wacquant, David Garland, Nils Christie, Zygmunt Bauman and Giorgio Agamben, among others, this theme also begins to be discussed by the national academic community. The paper therefore aims to address what has been called "punitive state," political figure who portrays the economic, social and cultural changes already underway in the last thirty years and that rises in Brazil as an increasingly hegemonic control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the experience of governance of the National Secretariat of Public Security (Senasp) to direct, coordinate and evaluate the actions and targets proposed by public policies in the area of security for the increment of a new paradigm - the public safety with citizenship - into the so-called "police education". To reach this, bibliographical research and field work were accomplished. The literature review included an examination of literature, nationally and internationally, on police professionalism, governance, public policy and democracy. The field work involved primarily an analysis of the official documentation of the National Secretariat of Public Security/Ministry of Justice (Senasp/MJ), especially addressed the area of "police education" produced in the period between 2003 and 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]