Contemporary reflection on the reinvention of democracy and compatible lifestyles is found to be fundamentally linked to the debate between "procedurists" and "communitarians." This article aims to analyze (relatively) the hegemony of this polarity, arguing for the development of the modern western world as a result of the world's three great subjectivizing languages: the language of interest, of reason, and of affection or feelings. Furthermore, it argues that only full understanding of the language of affection, can lead to real (or total) comprehension of the modern experience of Iberia-America, especially the process by which Brazilian society and its democratic potential have been constituted.
Democracy; Languages; Iberism; Social theory; Political culture