Da história como campo de batalhas em Michel Foucault

Abstract

This article aims to explore the understanding of history as a battlefield in Michel Foucault's genealogy to elucidate the adoption of "war" as an operator of intelligibility in politics and history in his dual role in Foucault's thought of the 1970s: a) as a methodological disposition for applying the agonistic relationship model to the historical scope of institutional and extra-institutional forms of production, regulation, and circulation of true discourse; b) as a form of political struggle in terms of understanding historical knowledge itself as an indefinite field of disputes, crossed by relations and reversals of forces in a perpetual battle.

Keywords: Michel Foucault; genealogy; history; war.