Politics of the Psychē. The Inclusive Exclusion of the Eidōlon and the Government of the Living

  • Germán Osvaldo Prósperi Universidad Nacional de La PLata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.64090
Keywords: Psychē, Eidōlon, psychopolitics, biopolitics, life

Abstract

The aim of this article is to demonstrate, while revising the analyses proposed by Byung-Chul Han in Psychopolitik and Giorgio Agamben in Il Regno e la Gloria, three correlative theses: 1) western politics is psychopolitical from its inception; 2) psychopolitics has been built upon the superiority of life (the psychē as the breath of life) and a corresponding inclusive exclusion of the eidōlon (the psychē as image of the dead); and 3) we owe Plato the paradigmatic rendering of this process since he equates the psychē with the living essence of human beings and the politics with the government of the living.

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Germán Osvaldo Prósperi, Universidad Nacional de La PLata

 

Germán O. Prósperi es Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). Su tesis doctoral versó sobre el problema del cuerpo en el fin de la historia. Se especializa en problemas vinculados a la metafísica, la antropología filosófica y la filosofía política. Dicta clases como Profesor Adjunto de Filosofía en la UNLP. Ha sido becado por el Ministero degli Affari Esteri para realizar seminarios de posgrado en la Università degli Studi di Genova (Italia) en los años 2005-2006. Ha sido también beneficiario de una Beca de Investigación otorgada por la Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) a través del Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (FonCyT) en los años 2015-2016. Es autor de los libros: Vientres que hablan. Ventriloquia y subjetividad en la historia occidental (La Plata: FaHCE-UNLP, 2015), y La respiración del Ser. Apnea y ensueño en la filosofía hegeliana (Buenos Aires: Miño y Dávila editores, 2018).
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Published
2020-03-17
How to Cite
Prósperi G. O. (2020). Politics of the Psychē. The Inclusive Exclusion of the Eidōlon and the Government of the Living. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 23(1), 85-95. https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.64090
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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2020)
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