Foucauldian Interpretations of Liberalism and Neoliberalism: Between an Archeo-Genealogy of the Forms of Contemporary Government and the History of Governmentality

Authors

  • Marcelo Raffin CONICET/UBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v13i27.584

Abstract

This article intends to analyze the main outlines of the developments proposed by Michel Foucault about liberalism and neoliberalism in terms of an archeo-genealogy of the forms of contemporary government and of the history of governmentality, which will enable him to argue that liberalism and neoliberalism constitute the extreme ontologico-political forms of contemporary governmentality. Therefore, this article aims at giving an overview of the categories and tools elaborated and suggested by Foucault about these problems and underlying the potentiality of these contributions for the diagnosis work and the interaction with our present, assessing, at the same time, certain “limits” to this analysis.

Author Biography

Marcelo Raffin, CONICET/UBA

Marcelo Raffin es Investigador Independiente del CONICET, Argentina, con sede en el Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani de la UBA y Profesor Titular Plenario Regular de Filosofía en esa universidad. Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad de París 8 Vincennes-à-Saint-Denis. Posee, asimismo, una Habilitación en Filosofía (HDR -Habilitation à diriger des recherches-) por la misma universidad. Director del Programa de Estudios Foucaultianos (PEF) de la UBA. Ha publicado, entre otros libros, Verdad y subjetividad en Michel Foucault (1970-1980) (director, 2020), Droits de l’homme, sujet et devenir. L’expérience contemporaine du Cône sud d’Amérique latine (2017) y La noción de política en Agamben, Esposito y Negri (editor, 2015). Sus investigaciones se centran en los problemas de la política y la subjetividad, el neocolonialismo y la decolonialidad, la producción de derechos y los derechos humanos. E-mail: raffinmarcelo@yahoo.com

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Published

2021-01-16

How to Cite

Raffin, M. (2021). Foucauldian Interpretations of Liberalism and Neoliberalism: Between an Archeo-Genealogy of the Forms of Contemporary Government and the History of Governmentality. Valenciana, 13(27), 305–338. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v13i27.584

Issue

No. 27 (2021): Núm. 27 enero-junio 2021

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