Un modo de resistir al biopoder: El lugar de la parrhesia en las reflexiones ético políticas de Michel Focault

Abstract

This text’s proposal deals with the possibility to examine the relevance of the link between the concepts of freedom and parrhesia in Michel Foucault’s philosophical project. In order to do so, we intend to demonstrate, on the one hand, how the problem of freedom emerges in Foucault’s writings. Then we will study how the passage from the first to the second moment in Foucault’s project opens a path that, besides resolving certain tensions resulting from his earlier analysis of the notion of power, provides a space of intelligibility to rethink the link between freedom and power. On the other hand, we can also examine in what measure does the notion of parrhesia open a space to deal with the problem of freedom and its link to ethics and politics. Finally, our proposal attempts to outline how the concept of parrhesia, in the terms of an honest use of language, emerges as an exercise of resistance against bio-power.