Abstract

FARIAS RIVAS, Rodrigo. “I only see heidegger and lacan”. Commentary on the distinction between philosophy and spirituality in michel foucault’s hermeneutics of the subject. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2017, vol.66, n.164, pp.251-264. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v66n164.53929.

The article discusses the notions of philosophy and spirituality relating the subject to truth, as dealt with by M. Foucault in The Hermeneutics of the Subject. While the philosophy of “know thyself” deals with the cognitive relation of subjects to the truth they have a right to, the spirituality of the care of the self has to do with the experiential transformation necessary for subjects to have access to truth. It is in this context that M. Foucault refers to M. Heidegger and J. Lacan as authors who thought the relation between subject and truth. In both cases, the distinction between philosophy and spirituality is discussed: in the case of Lacan, because the psychoanalytical experience appears as a spiritual experience of the care of the self, and in that of Heidegger, because Dasein and truth as unveiling reveal philosophy to be a spiritual experience par excellence.

Keywords : M. Foucault; M. Heidegger; J. Lacan; spirituality; philosophy.

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