The neoliberal virus in Brazil and the controversy with Giorgio Agamben

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378644019

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Giorgio Agamben, Coronavirus, Pandemic, Estate of exception, Ernesto Araújo, Biopolitics

Abstract

I explore the concepts of field and state of exception and try to show how Giorgio Agamben, on the one hand, is coherent with his work, besides being right in the diagnosis of the present, but, on the other hand, exaggerates the distrust of the real mortality of Coronavirus and, also, how this position of the Italian philosopher does not serve the Brazilian experience, especially regarding the problem of an apparent agreement of the Minister Araújo with the president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, with his alert for the state of permanent exception.

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Ricardo Evandro Santos Martins, Federal University of Pará, Belém, PA

Professor of Law at the Federal University of Pará, Belém, PA

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Published

2020-07-03

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Martins, R. E. S. (2020). The neoliberal virus in Brazil and the controversy with Giorgio Agamben. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 11, e20. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378644019

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Vol. 11 (2020): Special Issue: Pandemic and Philosophy

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Special Ed.: Pandemic and Philosophy (continuous publication)

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