Life, politics and economics in Michel Foucault

Authors

  • Cícero Oliveira

Keywords:

Population. Governmentality. Economics. Politics.

Abstract

In the thought of Michel Foucault, the first major application of power over life in the economic sphere controlled and disciplined insertion body-guy in the producing apparatus (or disciplinary work technology), it is the counterpart of biopower, at first, the decisive injunction this sphere (economic) shall exercise on somatic in the course of modernity. The biopolitics of the population or of the human species, introduced by the mercantilist state and determined by the statecraft of liberalism, will juxtapose and respond on another level the economic and somatic problems of the seventeenth century, welcomed and replicated at a certain level by the disciplinary authority. We seek to emphasize that this phenomenon identified as the “rise of life for power,” the feature overlap between life and politics in today’s societies, edge is crossed tip the political protagonism of the new “economic sphere” in the moment that it goes beyond the narrow and traditional boundaries of the family environment.

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Published

2017-02-20

Issue

No. 16

Section

Artigos

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