Biopolitics of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben

Document Type : Academic research papers

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1 Ain shams university

2 Professor of sociology-Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education Ain Shams University - Egypt.

3 Professor of Philosophy-Faculty of Arts- Helwan University –Egypt.

Abstract

Foucault's concept of biopolitics refers to a group of mechanisms that seek to preserve the biological life of citizens and set it as its goal, attempting as well, to organize and manage their affairs, through two levels; the first is the individual body: and this is through organizational and disciplinary processes. The second is the social body: it is through biological and institutional procedures. The concept of Agamben refers to a group of mechanisms that make "Bare life" a goal for it, and attempting to produce them by permanently imposing a state of exception in which the law is suspended by the rule of the constitution itself; and thus, citizens are "homo sacrs", that is, mere biological beings deprived of their political or social rights. In light of this, the current research seeks to identify the concept of biopolitics in terms of the general intellectual project of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben.
This concept relies on Norman Fairclough's method in speech analysis, with its three stages: description, explanation, and interpretation in the light of a theoretical framework that combines linguistic and social analysis of the text, being represented in the theory of formative structuralism by Lucien Goldman.

Keywords: Bio politics - Sovereign power - Bare life - State of exception.

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Buhūth
Volume 3, Issue 5 - Serial Number 5
Social sciences & Humanities
May 2023
Pages 21-41

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