Crítica filosófica ao neoliberalismo: a (In)estabilidade do sujeito e a desumanização da vida social na modernidade tardia

Abstract

This monograph, entitled Philosophical Critique of Neoliberalism: The (In)stability of the Subject and the Dehumanization of Social Life in Late Modernity, aims to critically analyse the effects of neoliberalism on the constitution of the contemporary subject and the configuration of social relations. It is based on the hypothesis that neoliberalism, by radicalising individualisation and commodifying all spheres of existence, contributes to subjective fragmentation, the precarisation of life, and the weakening of communal bonds. The research adopts a critical-philosophical approach and is structured in four chapters. The first examines the genesis and consolidation of neoliberalism as a system of power. The second investigates the dissolution of subjectivity within the context of liquid modernity and market logic. The third discusses the totalitarian dimension of neoliberalism, articulating biopolitics and necropolitics. The fourth and final chapter proposes a reflection on the philosophical-political limits of neoliberalism, confronting its rationality with the Platonic tradition and contemporary geopolitical challenges. The study concludes that neoliberalism functions as a totalising rationality that demands critical resistance and the construction of ethical, political, and solidaristic alternatives