Biopolítica y sufrimiento socialPensar una política libre de dominación
- 1 Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Innsbruck
ISSN: 1885-5679
Year of publication: 2017
Issue Title: Filosofía y política
Issue: 75
Pages: 193-216
Type: Article
More publications in: Eikasía: revista de filosofía
Abstract
This article consists of a reflection about the possibilities of organizing politics without domination and oppression, a kind of political organization in which social issues are not excluded (because they are crucial in the context of the organization of common life) but managed without causing suffering or repression. In order to elaborate such contribution I begin with an explanation of the concepts “zoé” and “bios” in the context of the political theories of Aristoteles, Arendt, Foucault, and Agamben. Life (zoé) has never been left outside politics, but politics used it for its own purposes. Biopolitics (the political management of life) is not a recent phenomenon, as Foucault declares, even though it is certainly from 18th Century, when clinical medicine and social sciences became sciences able to measure, watch, and intervene in populations, when politics becomes entirely biopolitics. Anyway the problem does not consist of managing life (zoé) politically, but the problem consists of a repressing management, a kind of management that generates social suffering. Politics means “to live together” and we are obliged to organize life, so we need to think how to organize such biopolitics without domination and repression. I consider the solutions proposed by Agamben and Tagore in order to achieve that goal.
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