ANIMALIZATION, DEPOLITICIZATION AND BIOPOLITICS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GIORGIO AGAMBEN´S ARGUMENTS

Resumen

The year of 2002 have seen the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben publish a book entitled L’aperto: l’uomo e l’animale. The present article has the propose of reading it, indicating its contributions, exploring the dialogues started over there, fixing its place in face of the project known generally as Homo sacer and relating it to the concept of biopolitics planned by Michel Foucault and inherited by Agamben. We shall need two parts to come to an end. In the first one, three steps will compose the scenario of the work. The first step can be translated in this way: our culture is permanently marked by the distinction between the man and the animal. The second step aims to comprehend how, in spite of the strong necessity of producing the human, the animalization is a path without return that belongs to the anthropological machine in our culture. Preparing the third step, assuming the affinity e humanity and the animality of man, we will be in condition to observe how animalization precedes despoliticization and open the streak that brings to biopolitics. In the second part, the text will therefore compare all that had been said to the evolution of the concept of biopolitics in Foucault’s thought. If the Italian philosopher defines himself as someone that writes after the French philosopher and, here, the occidental politics may be visualized in its co-originality with the biopolitics, must be necessary for us understand the whole process and the way it influences the mode we normally think contemporary politics.