Marcus Lessa
Marcus Lessa is lawyer, collaborating professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic School of UFRJ, and co-founder of the “José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva Chair - Security Policies, Prolegomena for the Requiem of a Unipolar World” at the Brazilian College of Higher Studies, where he is also a postdoctoral fellow with financial support from the National Institute of Science and Technology - Observatory of Military Capabilities and Defense Policies. At DEI-POLI-UFRJ, Marcus has taught disciplines on Research Methodology, Introduction to Law for Engineers, Transactional Engineering, History of Technology and Economics of Technology. His research interests are articulated around the dynamics between means and ends in the reconfiguration of the contemporary geopolitical landscape, considering its technological, political and cultural dimensions; of legal systems in historical perspective; and higher professional education, focusing on the connections between science, engineering, philosophy and art.
Articles of Marcus Lessa
A Flusserian Perspective on Legal Due Process
This essay is an inquiry into the nature of due process from the standpoint of Vilém Flusser’s philosophy of language. It expands on his distinction between dialogue and discourse to consider that a fruitful realization of due process is contingent upon relational patterns that enable the pursuit of a commitment to truthfulness. It incorporates concepts from Franz Rosenzweig, and Arnold Gehlen’s and Martin Buber’s anthropological philosophy to qualify this commitment, the relational patterns which can realize its pursuit, and how they constrain judicial utterances. This supports a phenomenology of due process that considers its nature twofold, both dialogical and discursive.