Michel Foucault and the figure of the subject of right: for the creation of a new right and ethical and libertarian ways of life

• Grant number: 14/08236-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2014
• End date: October 13, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Theory and Philosophy of History
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Luzia Margareth Rago
• Grantee: Priscila Piazentini Vieira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project inquires for the contributions that the studies of ethics brought to the Michel Foucault's thought, principally to think over the figure of "subject of right" and the image of a "new right". For that will be important to underline two issues. First off all read the works of Foucault within a philosophical tradition that criticizes the abstract human rights and highlights the relationship among power, law and violence. Secondly, based on his recently published courses, understand the meaning that the freedom has in his later studies, which is very different from that propagate by the economic liberalism and defended by the theory of contract. The research therefore aims to understand Foucault's work on ethics not only for his ability to criticize the traditional concepts, but also the possibility to create new problems, such as proposals to invent a new right and construct ethical and libertarian ways of life nowadays. (AU)