PARRESÍA CÍNICA E ALTERIDADE NA PERSPECTIVA DE MICHEL FOUCAULT

This article emphasizes the manner by which Michel Foucault, in his course Le courage de la vérité, rises the parrhesia to the status of a genuine philosophical experience of alterity. The hypothesis of this survey is that the reference to the alterity makes possible to rethink the relation between the care of oneself and parrhesia. Thus, from one hand, the care of oneself does not refer any more to an interiority that must be preserved or disclosed, from the other hand, the parrhesia cynical combative life can never be presented as an alternative proposal of occupying power in the interior of the political governmental play. Therefore, the cynical alterity, deduced from the true-life as other-life, involves an interesting battle in relation to the easy temptation of a refuge in the tranquility of the interior citadel, as well as vis-à-vis the risky conformity to the way politics is ruled.