From the Hermeneutics of the Self to the Politics of Ourselves
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https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/2789Keywords:
Michel Foucault, Truth, Subjectivity, Christianity, Confession, Authenticity, Ethics, Techniques of the Self, Hermeneutics of the Subject, Politics of OurselvesAbstract
This article tries to highlight the explicit political aim and the importance for our present of the thought of the «late» Michel Foucault. Through the analysis of the role that truth plays in the pagan and Christian techniques of the self, it opposes a truth that we have to discover in ourselves in order to refuse it (Christianity) or to adhere to it (ethics of authenticity) to a truth conceived as a force of transformation of logos into ethos, of the discourse into a way of life.
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2013-03-28
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Conference Proceedings - "Hermeneutics of the subject according to Foucault"
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