Neoliberalism approaches as a framework of political rationality that “makes live and lets die”

Abstract

Abstract: What is the distinctive bias of the approach to neoliberalism carried out by Michel Foucault in his course on the Birth of biopolitics that has not yet been sufficiently explored? In our view, the results that follow from having undertaken the study of neoliberalism as a framework of politia rationale for biopolitics remain to be examined. However, to reveal the findings that result from this theoretical decision, we need to make explicit, at the same time, the ties that connect the analyzes made by the French thinker between 1976 and 1979 and to describe the biopolitics implicit in the projected and applied social policies  in the different variables of neoliberal governmentality exposed in the classes of the 1979 course. Through the reconstruction of these ties, we hope to show that Foucault’s analyzes lay the foundations that allow us to warm that neoliberal governmentality « makes live and lets die ».