From the “literary dream” to the “political dream” of the plague: Foucault (critical) reader of Camus

Based on the opposition between “literary dream” and “political dream”, we intend to analyze Foucault's criticism of “literature of the plague”, which includes Albert Camus's well-known book, The plague. In the end, we try to signal the fact that, taking the case of Brazil, it is pertinent...

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Autor: Chaves, Ernani
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repositorio:Voluntas - Revista Internacional de Filosofia (Santa Maria)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/44091
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/44091
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Literary dream
Political dream
Normalization
Drunkenness
Sonho literário
Sonho político
Normalização
Embriaguez
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Sumario:Based on the opposition between “literary dream” and “political dream”, we intend to analyze Foucault's criticism of “literature of the plague”, which includes Albert Camus's well-known book, The plague. In the end, we try to signal the fact that, taking the case of Brazil, it is pertinent to say, with Foucault, that the relations between medicine and politics constitute the background of the forms of normalization instituted during the covid 19 pandemic, but that also, despite Foucault's criticisms of the literary dream, we cannot fail to see that the transgressions of the necessary social isolation have an air of celebration and ecstasy, in a permanent game with death itself.