Abstract

The following research aims to investigate the philosophical problem of violence from Foucault’s perspective. The attempt is to break from the classical paradigms on violence, founded on the repression theories, psychoanalytic theories and in terms of a war-model, because these are controversial, regardin the concept of violence. Foucault’s philosophy allows for an alternative to examine the gap in which relations of power and violence are separated. In this sense, it is possible to save Foucault’s model from the impossibility of a critique of violence in his philosophy, but at the same time, it is emphasized that this model allows a radical critique of both the philosophy of nature and of philo- sophical anthropology.