INVESTIGADORES
ALVAREZ Luciana
artículos
Título:
Biopolitics, life and body: some considerations from a Latin-American point of view
Autor/es:
ALVAREZ, LUCIANA
Revista:
philosophy study
Editorial:
David Publishing
Referencias:
Lugar: California; Año: 2014 vol. 4 p. 259 - 266
ISSN:
2159-5313
Resumen:
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 in 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. The works we are interested
in 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 develops to explain how
life has not been thoroughly integrated to technologies that dominate or run it
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