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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Autor: Martins, Ricardo Evandro Santos
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/44019
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/44019
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Giorgio Agamben
Coronavirus
Pandemic
Estate of exception
Ernesto Araújo
Biopolitics
Coronavírus
Pandemia
Estado de Exceção
Biopolítica
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Sumario: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.