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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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