Abstract

CHOQUE ALIAGA, Osman Daniel. Foucault: biopolitics and discontinuity. Prax. filos. [online]. 2019, n.49, pp.191-218. ISSN 0120-4688.  https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i49.8030.

A large number of Foucault commentators claim that biopolitics is fundamentally part of the corpus of his work. The discussion about this notion is imbricated in contemporary politics but, this interpretation moves away from the ideas of Foucault. In that sense, what are these modifications that come from the Foucauldian work? Are these movements typical of the notion or of subsequent investigative innovations? Is there a logic that follows the concept and if so, what internal logic does this notion play within the French philosopher’s thought? Biopolitics is understood from the meaning and meaning of life in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries and, thus, around the political strategy that circulates in those centuries. A relationship between politics and biopolitics or, if you prefer, a discontinuous problem, that is, a relationship that tries to unite areas that until now have not been considered: discontinuity and biopolitics itself. Is it possible to consider biopolitics as a discontinuous problem and as a method in which discontinuity is pre-eminent? It is a question that we intend to display in this work.

Keywords : Politics; Discontinuity; Population; Genealogy.

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