Dehumanization and politics: a contemporary politics analysis from an approach between Agamben work and the psychoanalysis

• Grant number: 12/50248-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - Political Theory
• Principal Investigator: Caterina Koltai
• Grantee: Caterina Koltai
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work aims to investigate taking as startpoint the analysis of Giorgio Agamben work and the contributions of psychoanalysis. The dehumanization process in the contemporary politics and how, in terms of biopolitics, modern man his life questioned in contemporary politics, and becoming thus bare life. (AU)