À sombra da vida nua: uma leitura biopolítica da infância

• Autor(a) principal: Bentes, Jackson Luiz Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24596
• topic: infância; criança; vida nua; Kaspar Hauser; biopolítica; childhood; child; bare life; Kaspar Hauser; Biopolitics; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The thesis of this research follows two parallel lines: the first affirms that the history of infancy constructs the identity of infancy, in other words, infancy is not understood as a chronological issue but rather becomes a question of language. In the second line of research, the the shadow of infancy comes into play. Here we have in mind what Walter Benjamin, the major influence on this work, coined as the concept of bare life, which paved the way to think about childhood as lived in the shadow of bio-politics, of which Kaspar Hauser is an emblematic example. This research has been conducted by sifting through the intricacies of history, the condition named infancy, and the being named child. The central problem is how to think of the life of the being named child insofar as this life is determined by power. Reflecting on the child and on infancy from philosophy to the language of the cinema, we find the film, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. He is an emblematic personage of what Benjamin termed bare life, which later Michel Foucault called bio-politics. Along with the analysis of this film, the intention of the present thesis is to recover a reflection on infancy which can take into account, and at the same time move beyond, the cultural production and naturalization of childhood. What is infancy? This question serves as the common thread tying together the parallel lines of research referring to the problem of naturalization. Thus, it is language which seems to permit the thinking about the child and infancy and their submission to power, moving beyond the illusions of nature.