BIOPOLÍTICA E GOVERNAMENTALIDADE COMO CHAVE DE LEITURA PARA O NEOLIBERALISMO

Abstract

The present work has as its theme the concepts of biopolitics and governmentality in Michel Foucault, approached from a bibliographic review carried out in order to explore the key to reading neoliberalism as a political rationality. The theoretical corpus used in this production is defined by two courses given by Foucault at the Collège de France: In Defense of Society and Birth of Biopolitics, together with the collection entitled Microphysics of Power. First, we present an epitome of how Foucault theoretically scrutinizes the question of power and its analytics. Second, we bring a synchronic approach between the concepts of biopolitics and governmentality, starting with a bibliographic review of the theoretical construction process of these categories in Foucauldian thought; to then arrive at the essay of a critical approach from a study between, on the one hand, this reading key obtained in the study of Foucault's concepts of biopolitics and governmentality - and some related theoretical categories, such as discourse, power, biopower , etc. – and on the other, the context of the issue of neoliberalism as a political rationality, as it appears in the work A Nova Razão do Mundo, by French sociologists Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval. It is not a question of properly analyzing neoliberal rationality in the light of Foucauldian biopolitics, but, without any pretension, to carry out a first critical approach, which is presented as a starting point for further research.