Marcos Nalli

Figuras da loucura em Histoire de la Folie

In the present essay, we aim to describe, in their general lines, the patterns that madness assumes in Michel Foucaults archeological account in his Histoire de la Folie (1961), since, for the French thinker, madness is a rather historical than natural event. To cope with this presentation, we took on a semantic interpretation of the book.

Fear as biopolitical device

Fear can be understood as a component of subjectivation that runs through human history winning different contours and being expressed in affective, employment, social and sexual relationships. This article seeks to discuss the fear as a device say about biopolitics which can be understood as a set of practices, rules and customs buildings participating in the production of modes of existence. The investigation was divided in three moments: first, fear is approached in a psychoanalytic perspective, with a focus in psychodynamics of defense mechanisms; then, are analyzes the ways in which fear meets specific social functions, being widespread in relationships that minimize and weaken the subject and collectivities; finally, it explored the links between fear and bio-power, emphasizing your dissemination strategy. At the end of the study, noted that far is shared defensive as a survival strategy that can culminate in experimentation with other possibilities of existence.

Paul Ricoeur leitor de Husserl

The objective of this article consists of inventorying that way Paul Ricoeur reads and he appropriates of elements of the philosophy of Husserl in his hermeneutical project. Like this, it is looked for firstly to characterize in general lines the history of the contemporary hermeneutic. In a second moment, we established a first delimitation of the hermeneutic of Ricoeur characterizing some of their central problems. Finally, in a third moment, we tried to observe like Ricoeur retakes the husserlian philosophy to give bill of their own hermeneutical reflections.