Biopoder e os dispositivos modernos em torno da sexualidade sob a luz de Michel Foucault

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the methodological theories approached by Michel Foucault in the 20th century, specifically in the 70s, because during this period there is a vast production about thinking about Biopower and the History of Sexuality. Emphasizing primarily the relevance in the chair of the History of Thought at the Collége de France and the contributions to the historiography of the present time, and in this regard the present monograph focuses on the notions referring to discourse, biopower, and the sexuality device constructed in thought of the French intellectual in dialogue with other thinkers and critics of his thinking, thus proposing to discuss and reflect on the device of sexuality around homosexuality, with an emphasis on pleasures, and the control of bodies.