Producción CyT
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2012
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Northeastern University
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We intend to get a close look at Foucault’s work on biopolitics with the aim of contrasting some of its aspects with the developments linked to the emancipatory and liberating potential of the notion of life (living corporeality) within the framework of Enrique Dussel’s Latin American Political Philosophy. We are interested on these theoretical approaches (Foucault’s biopolitics and Dussel’s Liberation Politics) given the political implications and prominence they grant ...
We intend to get a close look at Foucault’s work on biopolitics with the aim of contrasting some of its aspects with the developments linked to the emancipatory and liberating potential of the notion of life (living corporeality) within the framework of Enrique Dussel’s Latin American Political Philosophy. We are interested on these theoretical approaches (Foucault’s biopolitics and Dussel’s Liberation Politics) given the political implications and prominence they grant to the notions of body and life in contemporary societies. According to Foucault, the notion of biopolitics refers to a determined form of political rationality or way of governing which emerged in Western societies in the mid-18th-Century asserting the need to include natural life within the mechanisms and calculations of State power. After the emergence of biopolitics, biological life and the human species as such have come into play within the political power’s own strategies and thus become a part of the juridical, institutional, technological, scientific, and police mechanisms that are exerted by the State in order to control population. From Dussel’s Latin American Political Philosophy standpoint, it is possible to find the grounds of politics within the notion of life, in the sense that the production, reproduction and development of human life, for each human being, constitute an ethical-political obligation. Therefore, human life -its production, reproduction and development- constitutes the liberation horizon that bestows meaning upon emancipatory sociopolitical practices. The works we are interested to contrast present different standpoints: in the first one, life is related to the exercise of political power, whereas in the second one its approach concentrates on political emancipation processes. We believe, however, that it is possible to find convergence points between them that allow us to explain, to a certain extent, the importance of the notion of life in contemporary societies. For this purpose, we will carry out an analysis of the notion of “counter behaviors”, a concept that Foucault briefly developed to explain how life has not been thoroughly integrated to technologies that dominate it or run it but instead escapes them ceaselessly...
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FILOSOFIA LATINOAMERICANAVIDACUERPOBIOPOLITICA