Abstract

DEMETRI, Felipe Dutra  and  TONELI, Maria Juracy Filgueiras. What's Left of Internment: Madness, Exclusion, and Biopolitics in Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21i2.e10034.

This text aims to problematize the prominent place that the concentration camp occupies in the thought of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, specifically in the first works of Homo Sacer series. In this sense, we return to Michel Foucault's thought, namely in History of Madness, identifying the General Hospital and the large internment in the light of biopower and sovereign power notions. We also analyze how Agamben uses such concepts questioning the problematic space that the Italian philosopher grants to the mentally ill in Sovereign Power and the Naked Life and the consequences of such an option in the rest of his thought. We hope to demonstrate that a theory about biopower and tanatopolitics should have a broader scope in order to not omit other experiences of will.

Keywords : biopower; tanatopolitics; craziness; concentration camps.

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