Life as a (bio)political input: critical genealogies of Michael Foucault and Giorgio Agamben

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https://doi.org/10.31977/grirfi.v21i1.2164

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Agamben; Bio-Politics; Foucault; Life.

Resumo

The present work means to analyze the relation between politics and life throughout Michael Foucault’s and Agamben’s critical-conceptual articulations. That way, we try to explain the following question: to what extent and under which arguments is it possible to reflect upon the politics over the biological human life taking as reference Foucault’s and Agamben’s thesis and even finding a connection between both? We hypothesize that: (1) it is possible to acknowledge the discovery of politics over life back at the Greco-Roman world, linking the bio politics to the Western political structure; (2) while having its spectrum projected in the Age of Antiquity, bio-politics blossomed within the Modern history, since the appearance of medico-social categories and the realizations around the human life potentiality. To inspect the underlying theme of the question, our text is organized in three different moments: first, we go through Foucault’s perception of bio-politics and its connections to the human life; next, we observe how Agamben proposes his thesis and which arguments he makes use of to sustain his statements; and lastly, we present a liaison between both thesis, putting forward how they connected themselves within a research hypothesis.

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Biografia do Autor

William Costa, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)

Doutorando em Filosofia Social e Política na Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), São Leopoldo – RS, Brasil.

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2021-02-01

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COSTA, William. Life as a (bio)political input: critical genealogies of Michael Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Griot : Revista de Filosofia, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 1, p. 261–282, 2021. DOI: 10.31977/grirfi.v21i1.2164. Disponível em: https://www3.ufrb.edu.br/index.php/griot/article/view/2164. Acesso em: 22 dez. 2024.

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