Atitude crítica, luta política e vida democrática: Uma análise para além do pensamento de Michel Foucault.

In the present article I intend to point out, firstly, the relationship between diagnosis of the present and critical attitude based on Michel Foucault’s thought. Subsequently, I will indicate that the notion of critical attitude is at the same time partner and adversary of governmentality, in the sense that it designates a plural art of not being governed in a certain way and by the same agents, without, however, positioning itself outside the government game. I will also show that political struggles against the saturation of the governmental game can be thought as an unfolding of the critical attitude. Finally, I will try to demonstrate that the daily attempt to live and reflect democratically in the face of an authoritarian exercise of power, as has been observed especially in recent years in Brazil, can be understood as a gesture of resignification of the critical attitude. The problematization of this field of analysis was not directly addressed by Foucault, but it has become an indispensable object of study for the political diagnosis of our present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]