Ruy Fausto, normativity and anti-normativity

Abstract

The article examines Ruy Fausto’s concept of interversion in view of the debate on the meaning of ethical-moral normativity in a critical theory of capitalism. Taking the Marxian critique of political economy as reference, the text is divided into two main parts. In the first, the normative and anti-normative interpretations are characterized as an antinomy. In the second, it is argued that, based on Fausto’s particular reception and use of the Hegelian dialectic, his reading of the interversion offers an original solution to the debate.