Lecturas foucaultianas del liberalismo y el neoliberalismo: entre una arqueo-genealogía de las formas del gobierno contemporáneo y la historia de la gubernamentalidad

Abstract

This article intends to analyze the main outlines of the developments proposed by Michel Foucault about liberalism and neoliberalism in terms of an archeo-genealogy of the forms of contemporary government and of the history of governmentality, which will enable him to argue that liberalism and neoliberalism constitute the extreme ontologico-political forms of contemporary governmentality. Therefore, this article aims at giving an overview of the categories and tools elaborated and suggested by Foucault about these problems and underlying the potentiality of these contributions for the diagnosis work and the interaction with our present, assessing, at the same time, certain “limits” to this analysis.