La parresia tra “nomos” e “aletheia”: Verità, politica e forme “aleturgiche” in Foucault

Abstract

Analyzed the discursive practices of veridiction and the 'alethurgical' forms, such as the set of conditions of possibility of the 'will to truth' produced in a particular moment of history, the article retraces the thematization of parrhesia in classical Greece proposed by Foucault in the last years of his life. From its original meaning, freedom of speech qualified as a constitutional right and political structure of the Athenian democracy of the fifth century B.C., subject to a series of legitimizing conditions, parrhesia at the beginning of the sixth century B.C. undergoes an ethical-pedagogical twist that qualifies it as a virtue of the philosopher adviser to the monarch and a practice or set of practices aimed at persuading about the need for self-care. The approximation of the complex of parrhesiastic techniques to a stochastic art becomes evident in the Epicurean communities, in the Stoic and Cynic fields, and determines a shift of the point of articulation of truth, logos, and bios.