Michel Foucault: parrhesia and cynicism
From the last course ministered in the Collège de France (january/march, 1984), Foucault intends to analyse the historicity of cynicism in the Greek-Roman antiquity and its importance in the modern world. The importance of this article lays in the new direction of Foucaults’ researches, focused on t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1996 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Tempo Social (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/86285 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/ts/article/view/86285 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Games of truth Parrhesia Cynicism Subject Liberty Jogos de verdade Parrhésia Cinismo Sujeito Liberdade. |
| Sumario: | From the last course ministered in the Collège de France (january/march, 1984), Foucault intends to analyse the historicity of cynicism in the Greek-Roman antiquity and its importance in the modern world. The importance of this article lays in the new direction of Foucaults’ researches, focused on the history of thought, from the idea of games of truth. The parrhesia concept – brave act of true saying – is the central issue of the theorical core of the transhistoricity of the criticism of the cynical reason, allowing enlighten the ethical question of the free subject, known as empty form always ready to be an actual person on the social ground. |
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