https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n58.08
Alejandro Ruidrejo & María Cora Paulizzi
Universidad Nacional de Salta/Conicet, Argentina
Abstract
This article is anchored on Foucault’s notes entitled La magie – le fait social total (Magic—The Total Social Fact, 1950). Access to Foucault’s unpublished archives reveals an intense and productive work of notation and writing on ethnological production encompassing Mauss’ works through Lévi-Strauss’, including Durkheim and others. Thus, we aim to deploy a critical and contextual analysis of the threads interweaving Foucault’s thinking with ethnology— threads that either distance him from it, integrate with it, or disappear as the project of constructing an analytical framework for power relations within the orbit of Nietzschean genealogy progresses. To accomplish this, we outline a final analysis of French neoliberalism—Baudin, which accounts for an extended web of connections with the history of governmentality.
Keywords: ethnology, magic, genealogy, governmentality.
