“To Assume That Universals Do Not Exist": Neoliberalism as a Universalizable Concept from Foucault's Archaeogenealogy
Neoliberalismo enquanto conceito universalizável a partir da arqueogenealogia de Foucault
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https://doi.org/10.23925.2318-9215.2023v9n1A16Keywords:
neoliberalism; archaeology; dispositifsAbstract
The article proposes that the principles of rarity and the school-function (derived from Foucauldian archaeology) can help to understand the intelligibility crisis of post-2008 neoliberalism. Rather than taking neoliberalism as a universal a priori concept to categorize certain governmental practices, we seek to understand it a posteriori, emerging as a universal from these practices. We demonstrate that the resilience of neoliberalism (as a worldview and practice) stems from its organization into different dispositifs. What unites the various neoliberal strands are epistemic commitments that function as rare statements produced in four schools of thought – Chicago, Virginia, Vienna, and Freiburg.
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