Fou-cault and Spinoza against neoliberalism. Criticism, ethics and reform of the understanding

Abstract

In this paper I make in my own name a point of passage and conjunc-tion between Foucault and Spinoza. I take Lacan as a “vanishing mediator” and I produce a dis-placement in the theoretical plane enabled by the urgency of the political conjuncture, which is marked by neoliberalism and its possible dislocation, to link this critical approach to ethics and to a necessary reform of understanding that activates affections. This conceptual composition is sup-ported by a sustained theoretical and practical work that has been systematically unfolding around the so-called post-foundational thinking.