The strategic condition of the exercise of power in Michel Foucault

Authors

  • Rogério Luis da Rocha Seixas

Keywords:

Agonistics. Liberty. Power. Strategic.

Abstract

What is the meaning of the question “what the power is?” For Michel Foucault, it’s doesn’t matter. The essential is to describe the power like strategic exercises. Just the same, the traditional power interpretation like a king or a group possession needs to be abandoned. This article presents like the principal aim, to analyze the foucaultian`s interpretations about the power mechanism, while agonistics strategic relations between power and liberty.

Author Biography

Rogério Luis da Rocha Seixas

Doutor em Filosofia do PPGF/UFRJ.

Published

2011-01-01

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Section

Artigos