Animality, madness and biopolitcs in Foucault

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https://doi.org/10.31977/grirfi.v20i3.1832

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Animality; Biopolitics; Madness.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze madness in its most shameful aspect of human animality, particularly harmful and useless freedom. So, can we find in the History of Madness some topics (or some sketches) of what in the future we will designate in Foucault's thought as reflections on biopolitics? The question does not seem strange if we interpret madness as a great public experiment around the control of freedom, human restraint and the category of positive animality, resulting from the very objectification of madness as a phenomenon that links the pathological state and the animal state.

 

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Flávio Valentim de Oliveira, Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Pará (SEDUC/PA)

Doutor pela Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém – PA, Brasil. Professor da Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Pará (SEDUC/PA), Belém – PA, Brasil.

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Published

2020-10-20

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DE OLIVEIRA, Flávio Valentim. Animality, madness and biopolitcs in Foucault. Griot : Revista de Filosofia, [S. l.], v. 20, n. 3, p. 154–163, 2020. DOI: 10.31977/grirfi.v20i3.1832. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrb.edu.br/index.php/griot/article/view/1832. Acesso em: 24 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 20 No. 3 (2020)

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