Life as a scandal of truth: Michel Foucault’s philosophical testament
This article aims to interpret the last course taught by Michel Foucault at the Còllege de France, in 1984, extracting from it a kind of philosophical testament. I begin by seeking to make a parrhesiastic rendering of accounts emerge from this Foucaultian self-writing, in which Foucault speaks frank...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Veritas (Porto Alegre. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/44132 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/veritas/article/view/44132 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Parresía Cuidado de si Foucault Cinismo Estética da existência Parrhesia care of the self cynicism aesthetics of existence cuidado de sí cinismo estética de la existencia |
| Sumario: | This article aims to interpret the last course taught by Michel Foucault at the Còllege de France, in 1984, extracting from it a kind of philosophical testament. I begin by seeking to make a parrhesiastic rendering of accounts emerge from this Foucaultian self-writing, in which Foucault speaks frankly about the dimensions of his work and his horizon of concern with the interweaving of three major themes: truth, power and the subject. Later, I analyze how these three themes are tied by Foucault around the central issue of his last course, the notion of parrhesia. I expose the development of the concept of parrhesia in connection with the theme of true life in the Socratic-Platonic tradition, in Cynicism and in primitive Christianity, to finally conclude that Foucault leaves us a vast legacy, including the mission of, from the tradition opened by cynicism, to promote a rewritting of the history of philosophy no longer as a metaphysics of the soul, but as an aesthetic of existence. |
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