Michel Foucault and the concept of governamentality

Abstract

This study aims to analyze, genealogically, a sort of introductory topology of the problems of government in the thought of Foucault, especially as regarding the conditions of possibility and the most relevant features of the invention of the concept biopolitics. The purpose here is not the simple application of the concepts in their historical perspectives, but to make the mapping of the concepts, the course on Foucault. For this, the elaboration of our study takes place from an attentive analysis of the origins of life governments in association with pastoral power, with the birth and development of political economy.