%0 Journal Article %T Modos de fazer uma Rep¨²blica: demiurgia e inven o institucional na tradi o republicana brasileira Ways of republic making: institutional invention in Brazilian republican tradition %A Renato Lessa %J An¨¢lise Social %D 2012 %I Instituto de Ci¨ºncias Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa %X O artigo sugere uma interpreta o da Rep¨²blica brasileira como -processo de inven o dependente de duas ordens de fic es. A primeira delas, formulada entre outros ensa¨ªstas brasileiros, por Francisco Jos¨¦ de Oliveira Vianna, sustenta a vig¨ºncia, no processo de constitui o da sociedade e do Estado no -Brasil desde o per¨ªodo colonial, de um padr o de sociabilidade fragmentado e carente de la os sociais e c¨ªvicos permanentes. A segunda ordem de fic es ¨¦ corol¨¢rio da primeira: a aus¨ºncia de nexos sociais acabou compensada pela presen a e pela for a do direito p¨²blico e da elabora o constitucional. O artigo analisa dois momentos cruciais de (re)inven o da Rep¨²blica brasileira, ambos marcados pelo predom¨ªnio do direito p¨²blico e da inven o constitucional (1932 e 1988). Ao fim, a experi¨ºncia pol¨ªtica brasileira ¨¦ apresentada como tentativa continuada de cria o de uma comunidade c¨ªvica e pol¨ªtica ¡°contra os factos¡±. This article suggests an interpretation of the Brazilian republican State and nation building as a process affected by two orders of fictions. The first and fundamental one was formulated, among several Brazilian intellectuals, by Francisco Jos¨¦ de Oliveira Vianna in the beginning of the twentieth century. It was based on the assumption that Brazilian social and political history has been marked, since colonial times, by ¡°insolidarism¡± and by a lack of social and civic bonds among the population. The second order of fictions is a corollary of the first: the lack of social bonds has been compensated for by the presence and the force of public law and constitution making. The article analyzes two crucial moments of (re)invention of the Brazilian Republic - 1932 and 1988 - marked by a clear predominance of constitution and law making. As a result, Brazilian political experience is presented as an everlasting attempt to build a civic and political community against the facts. %K inven o %K Rep¨²blica %K direito p¨²blico %K constitui es %K fiction %K Republic %K public law %K constitutions %U http://www.scielo.oces.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732012000300001