Abstract
The present article aims to analyze two possible ways of understanding identity in Law, here called metaphysics of identity and identity-event. At first, it points the regime of government of life in the contemporary scenario, ant then, it intends to verify the concomitance of the (non) identity politics and the politics of rights. To protect the subjects they enclose them in a metaphysics of identity, but also they allow them to establish identities-events as critical attitudes towards the techniques of government. The argument lies in the understanding of Foucault's archeo-genealogical criticism as one of the forms of resistance to government techniques of identities rights, in pointing to new forms of “emancipation”.
Keywords:
Subject of rights; Identity; Critical Attitude; Archeo-genealogy; Politics of rights