Resistência e liberdade na crítica da razão política de Michel Foucault: a Filosofia como prática da parrhesia

Abstract

This paper sets out to analyze the political critique of reason established by the late Foucault, his membership of the Kantian critical tradition, as well as his transcendence, and the requirement for a new ethic based on aesthetic values. Proceeding to the reading and analysis of some texts written in the late 1970s and early 1980s, our project will seek to elucidate the ethical-aesthetic-political Foucault through his critical project, stressing the importance of archgenealogical analysis in order to understand the modern arts of government and the ontology of ourselves. When we revive Foucault’s questions on his last texts, an update is taken place in the philosophica. l thought: to be aware of the excesses practiced by the power’s rationality, as well as to renew the practice of liberty in scenarios where power acts without restraints. The search for different ethics, capable of breaking the limits of representational thought, is necessary in this scenario: refuse what we are and shape into another system of thought in order to achieve a reflected, actual practice of freedom. It should also investigate the importance of the concept of parrhesia, here translated by true speech, developed in recent courses administered by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France in order to achieve maximum power in the revolted ethics advocated by the philosopher.