Not Possible to Destroy Opinions by Force

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Christian Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The State ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Che Guevara

This chapter surveys the influence and thinking of Hannah Arendt and Che Guevara regarding education. Despite their many differences, both thinkers are surprisingly similar in seeing authority in an ideal community as self-justifying and therefore authorizing a certain amount of repression by the state. The essay turns to the later thinking of Michel Foucault and his theory of a utopian liberalism to provide individuals a way to both join in but not be subjugated by larger collectivities. The chapter concludes that universities can embrace a form of Foucault's utopianism and allow the left and right to debate their respective positions and not need to censor views except in the most extreme cases. The goal in free speech should be to make students into thinking subjects.

scholarly journals Estado de exceção: o poder soberano e a captura da vida / State of exception: the soberan power and the capture of life

Profanações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Lara Emanuele da Luz
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The State ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Current Time ◽  
The One

Giorgio Agamben, filósofo italiano, apresenta um diagnóstico da modernidade bastante relevante para nosso tempo atual. Para ele, a biopolítica existe desde o nascimento do pensamento político Ocidental, e é ela que rege e captura a vida das pessoas pertencentes à polis. Para isso, é necessário que o Estado de exceção comece a tornar-se regra para que nele, tudo possa ser instaurado. Nestes termos, o presente artigo pretende apresentar, por um lado, o que é e quais as características do Estado de exceção para Agamben, ressaltando o diálogo deste com o Carl Schmitt, grande inspirador do filósofo italiano sobre o Estado de Exceção. Por outro lado, explicar-se-á de que modo a biopolítica e o campo de concentração nascem através desse, e suas principais características. Para isso, faz-se necessário passar por um percurso explicativo, analisando aspectos da biopolítica sob a perspectiva de Hannah Arendt e Michel Foucault, grandes inspiradores de Agamben neste aspecto.AbstractGiorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher, presents a diagnosis of modernity very relevant to our current time. For him, biopolitics has existed since the birth of Western political thought, and it’s it that rules and captures the lives of people belonging to the polis. For this, it’s necessary that the State of exception begins to become the rule so that everything can be established in it. However, this article intends to present, on the one hand, what’s and what the characteristics of the State of exception for Agamben, highlighting his dialogue with Carl Schmitt, great inspiration of the Italian philosopher on the State of Exception. On the other hand, it’ll be explained how the biopolitics and the concentration camp are born through this, and its main characteristics. For this, it’s necessary to go through an explanatory course, analyzing aspects of biopolitics from the perspective of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, Agamben's great inspirers in this regard.

The State of Free Speech

1998 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Moon ◽  
Owen Fiss
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
The State

scholarly journals A lógica da compaixão

1999 ◽  
Vol 21-22 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-117
Author(s):  
Sandra Caponi
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Hannah Arendt

Tomando como ponto de partida os trabalhos de Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt e Michel Foucault, este escrito pretende problematizar a lógica interna da compaixão piedosa, pois, como tentaremos mostrar, ela parece instaurar uma modalidade peculiar de exercício de poder que se estrutura a partir do binômio servir-obedecer. A partir desses autores, pretendemos ler alguns exemplos que a história da humanidade nos apresenta para ilustrar o exercício dessa "cruel compaixão".

Extreme Political Beliefs Predict Dogmatic Intolerance

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Willem van Prooijen ◽  
André P. M. Krouwel
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Political Left ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Political Right

Dogmatic intolerance—defined as a tendency to reject, and consider as inferior, any ideological belief that differs from one’s own—is often assumed to be more prominent at the political right than at the political left. In the present study, we make two novel contributions to this perspective. First, we show that dogmatic intolerance is stronger among left- and right-wing extremists than moderates in both the European Union (Study 1) as well as the United States (Study 2). Second, in Study 3, participants were randomly assigned to describe a strong or a weak political belief that they hold. Results revealed that compared to weak beliefs, strong beliefs elicited stronger dogmatic intolerance, which in turn was associated with willingness to protest, denial of free speech, and support for antisocial behavior. We conclude that independent of content, extreme political beliefs predict dogmatic intolerance.

scholarly journals Kongen hersker, men regerer ikke - Guvernementalitet, statificering og statspraksis hos Michel Foucault

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Nicolai Von Eggers ◽  
Mathias Hein Jessen
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
The West ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Michel Foucault developed his now (in)famous neologism governmentality in the first of the two lectures he devoted to ’a history of governmentality, Security, Territory, Population (1977-78) and The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-79). Foucault developed this notion in order to do a historical investigation of ‘the state’ or ‘the political’ which did not assume the entity of the state but treated it as a way of governing, a way of thinking about governing. Recently, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has taken up Foucault’s notion of governmentality in his writing of a history of power in the West, most notably in The Kingdom and the Glory. It is with inspiration from Agamben’s recent use of Foucault that Foucault’s approach to writing the history of the state (as a history of governmental practices and the reflection hereof) is revisited. Foucault (and Agamben) thus offer another way of writing the history of the state and of the political, which focuses on different texts and on reading more familiar texts in a new light, thereby offering a new and notably different view on the emergence of the modern state and politics.

scholarly journals Poder, Fuerza y Violencia en Michel Foucault y Hannah Arendt. Una lectura desde la inmanencia

2014 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Flavio Guglielmi
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Hannah Arendt

Las lecturas contemporáneas de la política restituyen dimensiones generalmente desatendidas por la modernidad liberal. Para dicha propuesta, un factor importante es la distinción entre poder, fuerza y violencia. Gran parte de la modernidad despliega una idea de política que involucra dichas nociones como si fueran elementos intercambiables o con las mismas propiedades. Para repensar la política y restituir sus dimensiones se vuelve indispensable analizar los componentes mencionados; señalando sus alcances, diferencias y relaciones. El presente trabajo se basa en el estudio de dos autores contemporáneos que problematizaron dicha temática y que ejercieron una gran influencia en el campo de la teoría política: Hannah Arendt y Michel Foucault. Ambos presentan percepciones sobre poder, violencia y fuerza que emergen al considerarlas como tipos de acciones que difieren respecto a su finalidad y medios de actuar. La hipótesis que pretende responder el presente escrito es si dicha distinción corresponde también a una diferencia entre una actuación inmanente y otra de tipo trascendente.

scholarly journals Afeto e discurso racistas

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Carlos Augusto Peixoto Junior
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Hannah Arendt

Este trabalho tem como objetivo abordar o tema do racismo através de uma análise que procura enfatizar seus aspectos discursivo e afetivo. Neste sentido, recorremos às teses de pensadores como Hannah Arendt e Michel Foucault para fundamentar uma perspectiva histórico-filosófica sobre o discurso racista, e ao enfoque psicanalítico para caracterizar as diferentes formas de expressão do ódio racista.

La sinistra e la destra nella Francia politica

2013 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Vincent Duclert
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Future ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Republic

The recent presidential elections in 2012 have shown that left-right cleavage was still dominant in France. The redistribution of political forces, strongly awaited by the center (but also by the extremes) did not take place. At the same time, the major issues, such the European unification, the future of the nation, the future of the Republic, the role of the state, continue to cross left and right fields, revealing other cleavages that meet other historical or philosophical contingencies. However, the left-right opposition in France structured contemporary political life, organizing political families, determining the meaning and practice of institutions. Thence, the question is to understand what defines these two political fields and what history brings to their knowledge since the French Revolution, or they are implemented

Postlude Pardoning and Liberal Constitutionalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-274
Author(s):  
Bernadette Meyler
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Liberal Constitutionalism

Its historical association with monarchical sovereignty has tarred pardoning with an illiberal brush. This Postlude examines Carl Schmitt’s Constitutional Theory, Political Theology and other writings to argue that the pardon resembles the sovereign decision on the state of exception. The vision of pardoning as opposed to liberal constitutionalism dates further back than Schmitt, however; it appears as well in the writings of Immanuel Kant, one of the foundational figures of modern liberalism. Only by disassociating pardoning from sovereignty can it be reconciled with constitutionalism. The Postlude concludes by turning to the work of Hannah Arendt as one source for a non-sovereign vision of pardoning.

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