WILL AND TRUTH IN FOUCAULT

Authors

  • Carolina de Souza Noto Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v15i2.9084

Keywords:

discourse, subjectivity, truth, will.

Abstract

According to Foucault, all discursive production implies some kind of will to knowledge. We propose to investigate the type of discourse produced by the philosopher and the type of will that it implies. Understand the speech of Foucault as an experiment that correlates what is said as truth and subjectivity explains what the philosopher himself spoke about this subject. In this paper, we investigated the type of discourse produced by the philosopher and the type of will or subjectivity that underpins it. We will see that the discursive production of Foucault can be a proof that what we are and what we say are not restricted to the order of submission, appeasement, identity and universality. For Foucault, subjectivity is in constant formation and transformation and what we say not only gives us access to truth, but, above all, change our way of being.

Downloads

Author Biography

Carolina de Souza Noto, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutoranda em Filosofia Contemporânea Francesa, Faculdade de Filosofia, Universidade de São Paulo.

Downloads

Published

2010-09-13

How to Cite

NOTO, C. de S. WILL AND TRUTH IN FOUCAULT. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 15, n. 2, p. 11–27, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v15i2.9084. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/9084. Acesso em: 2 sep. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2010): Varied subjects

Section

Artigos Originais

License

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

- Authors are authorized to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with an acknowledgement of its authorship and initial publication in this journal.