Article ID: CBB001420668

Adolphe Quetelet e a biopolítica como teologia secularizada (2013)

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The article recaptures the work of an author who has been forgotten by the contemporary social sciences, that is, the Belgium polymath Adolphe Quetelet. Focusing on his main work, Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou Essai de physique sociale, the study underscores how the secularization of theological principles within the realm of science was important to the construction of Quetelet's work. His dual engagement in science and politics is pertinent here, as he was the main nineteenth-century force behind the incorporation of statistics as a science essential to the State's ability to govern its people. He also played a relevant role in the realization of the hegemonic political project of modernity, biopolitics, and its influence in the field of biomedicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Authors & Contributors
Kaat Louckx
Donnelly, Kevin Padraic
Vanderstraeten, Raf
Bertrams, Kenneth
Tafreshi, Donna
Sposini, Filippo Maria
Concepts
Statistics
Science and government
Social sciences
Science and politics
Demography; population research
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Belgium
United States
Germany
England
Netherlands
New Zealand
Institutions
Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Académie Royale de Belgique
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