Foucault e a História da sexualidade: da multiplicidade das forças à biopolítica

Abstract

After forty years of its publication, the first volume of Foucault’s History of sexuality – An introduction is still a profoundly innovative work. This paper’s aim is to elucidate some of its aspects, giving special attention to two points of Foucault’s analyses. The first is the definition of power with terms like “multiplicity of force relations” and the second is the famous concept of biopolitics. In both points Foucault articulates his criticisms to the juridico-political discourse and formulates a very original conception of modern political experience.