The neoliberal virus in Brazil and the controversy with Giorgio Agamben
I explore the concepts of field and state of exception and try to show how Giorgio Agamben, on the one hand, is coherent with his work, besides being right in the diagnosis of the present, but, on the other hand, exaggerates the distrust of the real mortality of Coronavirus and, also, how this posit...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repositório: | Voluntas - Revista Internacional de Filosofia (Santa Maria) |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/44019 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/44019 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Giorgio Agamben Coronavirus Pandemic Estate of exception Ernesto Araújo Biopolitics Coronavírus Pandemia Estado de Exceção Biopolítica |
| Resumo: | I explore the concepts of field and state of exception and try to show how Giorgio Agamben, on the one hand, is coherent with his work, besides being right in the diagnosis of the present, but, on the other hand, exaggerates the distrust of the real mortality of Coronavirus and, also, how this position of the Italian philosopher does not serve the Brazilian experience, especially regarding the problem of an apparent agreement of the Minister Araújo with the president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, with his alert for the state of permanent exception. |
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