Ethical-political potentials of the notion of friendship in Nietzsche and Foucault

In this paper, we intend to analyze the concept of friendship in the philosophies of Nietzsche and Foucault, in order to demonstrate how this affection can be considered an important reading key both for the critique of morality and the notion of biopower, coming to represent, therefore, an alternative to the current moral and political practices. For that, it starts from an analysis of the concept in Nietzsche an philosophy, articulating it with the idea of self-affirmation, from which is proposed the argumentative unfolding that leads to the Foucaultian conception as a way of life. Whether because it presents itself as an affective relationship that potentiates vital forces, or because it rejects the processes of subjection exercised by biopower, friendship presents itself as a rich arsenal of resistance in view of the full animation of each individual.