Reflexões sobre biopolítica na filosofia de Michel Foucault: Considerações sobre a metodologia e sobre o controle das populações

Abstract

This study aims to address the issue of management of populations in Michel Foucault's thinking. We will analise the genealogic methodologythat assesses the modernity as a period in which emerges multiple device control and capture of individuals and also the society. First we discuss genealogy as a methodology that enabled Michel Foucault to understand the emergence of the modernity and the society in political terms (Chapter 1); then we will review the methodology used by Foucault, we will examine his reflections on modern society, and the elements that characterize such society, we will also discuss Foucault's notion of disciplinary society and its characteristics, the control project and social discipline (chapter 2); then we will analyze the effects of biopower in society. We will check also three battlefields: the nation-state, the security and the racism of state as social order elements (Chapter 3); Finally, we will conclude with an assessment of the search results and inthe final considerations, we will reflect with other thinkers on Michel Foucault's reflections discussed in this dissertation.