τέχνη τοῦ βίου. Il cinismo nel pensiero di Michel Foucault

Abstract

In this article, I shall examine the relation between technique and nature within Cynic philosophy, as it emerges in Michel Foucault’s interpretation. The objective is to demonstrate that the Cynic call for a return to nature is neither immediate nor self-evident, but becomes possible only through what Foucault designates as the Technologies of the Self.
The article aims to highlight, in a transversal manner, how the analysis of Cynicism in Foucault does not merely pursue a reconstructive purpose, but rather functions as a theoretical device aimed at articulating an ontology of the present.