Abstract

MARTIN MARTINEZ, Miguel Ángel. Life as a scandal of truth. Foucault and The Cynics. Eidos [online]. 2021, n.35, pp.321-348.  Epub Feb 08, 2022. ISSN 1692-8857.  https://doi.org/10.14482/eidos.35.194.

Michel Foucault studies the reviled cynical school in two moments of his work: in 1978 in a conference entitled The Analytical Philosophy of Politics, in full period of study of governmentality, the cynics exemplify a critical attitude to political power, and in 1984, in his last year at the Cóllege de France, the cynics as the last ladder of ethical parrhesia, as correspondence between the logos and the bios, as an example of vrai vie. This article aims to show the connection between both moments, the interconnection between a critical attitude of the philosopher against politics and a true saying embodied in life as a real scandal.

Keywords : cynics governmentality; criticism; politics; parrhesia; ethos.

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