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Autore: Cammelli, Michele Titolo: Da Comte a Foucault attraverso Canguilhem. L'avventura ermeneutica della biopolitica Periodico: Filosofia politica Anno: 2006 - Volume: 20 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 13 - Pagina finale: 28
Right after the birth of biology Comte proposes the term "biocratie" to sustain that thanks to biology it will be possible to establish a new technoscientific management of life. During and after WWII Canguilhem, with his epistemological critique of biology and medicine, proposes a critique of the will to biologically normalize man. Foucault will relay on Canguilhem's positions in order to demonstrate - albeit not explicitly - that Nazist "biopolitics " is the tragic embodiment of Comte's "biocratie": the will to dominate man through the very laws of biology.