An approach to biopolitics to understand the contemporary democratic and legal situation

Abstract

The book Democracy, law and biopolitics. Problems and challenges of life in common coordinated by Israel Covarrubias is a work that has virtues that should be pointed out. One of them is to get several authors to reflect on the concept of “biopolitics” and the underlying concepts that are in the research of Michel Foucault (1993; 2001; 2006). In a particular, but non-limiting way, in the courses he offered at the Collège de France between 1971 and 1984.