A redução moderna da política à economia: uma análise foucaultiana e arendtiana

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to understand, through a historical-political study process, some causes and effects of the modern phenomenon of reduction of political sphere to the economic issue in the West. It is intended to examine, in the light of the reflections of Arendt, the modern confusion between the public and private spheres, which is a central cause of the reduction of politics to economy. From there, the economy (before part of the private sphere) becomes the main political issue in which all other segments are overlapped. It is operated a generalization of “economic laws of the market” for the society and the politics. This process relativizes everything that prevents the supposed economic progress and the disciplined order, generating legitimating practices of this “progressive social order.”