Interdisciplinarity in the humanistic sensitivity education of the jurist, and stereotyping of positivism and natural law in “Les miserables”

Abstract

Considering the promising results of studies in the field of Law in Literature, as well as its interfaces and connections, this article seeks to defend interdisciplinary dialogue as a pedagogical practice in the jurist’s humanistic sensitivity training, having as guiding principles legal and literary hermeneutics. Through the deductive method, used in qualitative research, this paper encompasses the importance of interdisciplinarity in the education of the humanistic sensitivity of the jurist, the contribution of Literature to the teaching of law, as well as an analysis of two of the central characters in the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, correlating them as stereotypes of positivism and natural law theory in relation to the law and to human attitudes. It questions the role of literature in legal education and in the constitution of the human being, who exists, necessarily, among heterogeneity, diversity, historicity and sociability. Taking an interdisciplinary position between Law and Literature allows the breaking of barriers that still remain rigid, especially in the task of rethinking law and the education of jurists and lawyers beyond legal positivism. Therefore, the correlation of these two disciplines, especially considering the emotive and educational function of Literature, is a proposal for an interdisciplinary study in favor of a legal formation also directed to the formation of the humanistic sensitivity of the jurist and the lawyer.