Agamben contra o neoliberalismo: contribuições dos conceitos de vida nua e homo sacer para o debate sobre a governamentalidade neoliberal

Abstract

This dissertation has as it’s objective investigates the contributions about the concepts of bare life and homo sacer, of the political theory of Giorgio Agamben, to the discussion about neoliberalism as governmentality. This is an explanatory research of the bibliographic type, with a qualitative approach and a hypothetical-deductive method. The central theoretical reference is the political theory of Giorgio Agamben, specifically his concepts of bare life and homo sacer. Also as a theoretical reference for the research we have Michel This dissertation has as it’s objective investigates the contributions about the concepts of bare life and homo sacer, of the political theory of Giorgio Agamben, to the discussion about neoliberalism as governmentality. This is an explanatory research of the bibliographic type, with a qualitative approach and a hypothetical-deductive method. The central theoretical reference is the political theory of Giorgio Agamben, specifically his concepts of bare life and homo sacer. Also as a theoretical reference for the research we have Michel Foucault, specially his concepts of biopolitics and neoliberal governmentality, as well as Wendy Brown and her interpretation about neoliberalism from the ideas of sacrifice and sacrificial citizen. The research problem of this dissertation is: what is the contribution of the agambenian concepts of bare life and homo sacer to the discussion of neoliberalism as governmentality? The analyzes resulting from the dialogue between the agambenian theory and the theme of neoliberalism revealed that, although Agamben does not dedicate in his political theory a direct debate about neoliberal governmentality, the concepts of bare life and homo sacer help to understand this contemporary phenomenon through the intermediation of the philosopher's theory with that of Foucault and Brown. Also, it is hypothesized that Brown's analysis of neoliberalism with an emphasis on the characteristic of sacrifice and the identification of the sacrificial citizen exemplifies what Agamben identifies as the exceptional relationship that includes life in juridical-political relations by exclusion. In this sense, it was possible to identify that neoliberalism works from this relationship, so that the sacrificial citizen described by Brown can be considered a contemporary paradigm of bare life, a life that is inserted in the functioning of neoliberalism from it’s exclusion, resulting from of the loss and minimization of rights, being in the condition of abandonment and susceptible to a constant power of death.