The philosophy as a way of life: the insurrection of the governed and the ontology historical of ourselves in Michel Foucault

Abstract

This papper aims to present the correlations between philosophy as a way of life and the insurrections of the governed from a foucaultian reading around the ontology historical of ourselves. At first, we try to establish a reading about the problematization undertaken by Foucault around the biopolitics understood as the government of life in our modernity from the formation of certain control devices and subjugation through the articulation between the strategies of knowledge, of the practices of power and processes of subjectivation. The second moment is devoted to thinking about the fundamental features of parresia as a satirical practice of a cynical manifestation of the scandal of truth. The final considerations are dedicated to thinking, starting from Foucault, the ethical experiences from an ontological dimension whose attitude is the instability of forces necessary for the production of new practices of freedom.