Bio-power and post-humanism

Authors

  • Oswaldo Giacoia Junior Professor titular do Departamento de Filosofia - IFCH - Unicamp.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36517/Argumentos.2019.21.41032

Keywords:

Bio-Politics. Bio-Power. Humanism. Human Rights. Modernity. Sovereignty.

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to analyze the concepts of bio-power and bio-politics in the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, exploring its consequences for the discussion of cardinal problems of contemporary philosophy of law and political philosophy.

Author Biography

  • Oswaldo Giacoia Junior, Professor titular do Departamento de Filosofia - IFCH - Unicamp.

     

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Published

2019-04-22

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