A parresía cínica e a estética da existência – sobre Foucault e Tarkovski

Abstract

The main theme of the master's thesis will be dedicated to Michel Foucault's work on the subject's self-techniques with himself, especially with regard to his veridiction processes. Before that, the work goes through fundamental concepts of the work of the french philosopher in his analysis of power relations, such as pastoral power, governmentality and biopower, as well as his investments on subjectivity in Antiquity, drawing a line that goes from the diagnosis of the state of subjection of the individual to a possibility of escape from the "repressive hypothesis" to glimpse practices of freedom, practices of the subject's itself, which point to new ways of conceiving existence. To this end, the development of these philosophical problems will be assisted by authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Friedrich Nietzche, whose works will help to understand and conceptualize the notion of aesthetics of existence. Finally, the project will establish a dialogue between Michel Foucault and Andrei Tarkovski, with the understanding of the russian filmmaker's art as the guiding thread of the notions of subjectivity and parresia in the Greeks, worked on by the french philosopher.