EDILENE ALVES BEZERRA

The research proposes to investigate criticism, in Foucault, taking it as a practice that marks the reflection on governmentality between 1978 and 1984. Thus, the objective was to map the presence of this practice and verify the task that Foucault entrusted to her in the course of his research on conduct governance. From these analyzes, the supported hypothesis is that the practice of criticism can be characterized as ambivalent in the genealogy of government practices, that is, on the one hand, it is linked to the regimes of truth, exercising its role of defining the conditions of existence and the limits of governmental rationalities and, on the other hand, it is linked to the practices of freedom, testing the chances of exceeding these limits for the (re)creation of new ways of life.