Sensibility and Politics: a poetic look attentive to everything
Abstract
The following paper seeks to better understand how the military dimension articulates with the civil dimension in the social and political scenario of Portuguese democratic society. Fifty years after the transition to a representative democratic system, we consider that the deliberation on the apparent epistemic and teleological obstacle that the armed forces can personify, constitutes a fundamental element for understanding the interactions between the military and power in democracy.
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