O governo dos homens na contemporaneidade: laicização do poder e subjetivação massificante
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2012-07-29
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The objective is to determine the manner in which government of men is exercised in
contemporary society. Nowadays, nations are organized according to the structure of liberal
democracy, a late formation of the liberal discursive practice. Searching for contemporary
liberal governmentality specificity, the text makes use of the genealogical method, thus
breaking research on provenance and emergence of the object of study. Relying on the
analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault - respectively, founder and improver of
genealogical critique – it verifies what appear to unify its research hypotheses: first, the idea
that power as exercised in modernity is the displacement and secularization of a originally
religious natured relationship, and secondly, the assertion that, the historically identifiable
process of subjects production, is a massification process; modernity would be marked, in an
apparent paradox, by the fact that it has a massifying subjectification. The two genealogist
philosophers express these theses with the complementary concepts of "herd morality", in the
German case, and "pastoral power", in the French case, which refer respectively to the
formation of the individual's psychological type of modernity and the incidence mechanisms
of power over the bodies subject to it. Foucault notes, however, that in contemporaneity a
transmutation of state power which took the model of political economy has changed the
general outline of governmentality, from a normalization of the bodies to a regulation of
populations: it is the dawn of biopolitics and liberal governmentality. Futhermore, recent
decades seem to define itselves by the actual enrollment in new discursive practices, that from
the human capital theory and also an update of the homo economicus concept, which only
renew Nietzschean diagnosis of the "last man" hegemony
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BARBOSA, Aelton Leonardo Santos. O governo dos homens na contemporaneidade: laicização do poder e subjetivação massificante. 2012. 119 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Filosofia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2012.