A mediação de conflitos como obra de arte: o papel da hermenêutica fenomenológica e as críticas ao tecnicismo

Abstract

The present doctoral thesis proposes to understand conflict mediation through the primordial focus on language and the dialogue between subjects. It is founded on phenomenological hermeneutics, and its core is a critique of technicism, in a paradigmatic approach in which conflict mediation may be attained as if in a new habitat: like a work of art. For this purpose, Martin Heidegger’s ontological phenomenology was the theoretical framework used for the deconstruction of the conflict mediation in its fascination for a utilitarian, procedural and technicist habitat. Using this theoretical approach, it is possible to envision conflict mediation in a field where phenomena occur and where they accomplish by themselves the exhibition of the individual truths, therefore allowing this process itself to be understood as a work of art in the sense proposed by Heidegger. Conflict mediation, as seen in this new habitat and recognized as a work of art, facilitates the path where empathic listening and care may take place in a dialogic and phenomenological way, bringing forth unveiling and uncovering-up of the involved human beings – the ones and the others and their respective truths. The focus of this doctoral thesis is, therefore, a critique of the technicist mediation as a means of implementing a calculating and predictive thought, which has its origins in modern technicism producing a degenerative process of thinking and acting as opposed to a virtuous path for conflict mediation from which empathic listening and care can be seen as essential both for the mediator and also for those being mediated.