Economic liberalism as a critique of governmental reason in Michel Foucault

Authors

  • Rone Eleandro dos Santos

Keywords:

Michel Foucault. Adam Smith. Liberalism. Economy politics. Government.

Abstract

Breaking of the analysis of the sprouting of homo œconomicus and the citizen of interest and its differences how much to the notion of one homo juridicus and a citizen of the right, Michel Foucault places in question in the course “Le naissance de la biopolitique” (1978-1979) the relations between the right, the economy and the politics. Reflecting in this Foucault direction it points Liberalism as a critical enterprise made against the rationality politics that takes the form of a philosophy politics. Taking as example the economy politics of Adam Smith, we will see that Foucault points economic liberalism as a form of disqualification of the project politician who places the sovereign and legal State and its art to govern as “the correct disposal of the things, which if assumes the incubency to lead to a convenient end”.

Author Biography

Rone Eleandro dos Santos

Mestrando em Filosofia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)/CAPES

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Published

2009-07-01

Issue

No. 2

Section

Artigos

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