Open AccessO silêncio de Foucault para o Alcebíades de Plutarco
Author(s) -
Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nuntius antiquus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7064
pISSN - 1983-3636
DOI - 10.17851/1983-3636.6..201-217
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , subject (documents) , portrait , hermeneutics , philosophy , michel foucault , focus (optics) , reflection (computer programming) , humanities , literature , epistemology , politics , art history , art , physics , law , political science , geometry , mathematics , optics , library science , computer science , programming language
We intend to relate Plutarch and Foucault through a character present in the work of both thinkers, namely, Alcibiades, the eugenés. A comparison between the two representations shows that the focus of interest differs in each case. Our reflection is based on the following questions: Why doesn’t Foucault discuss Plutarch’s Alcibiades in The Hermeneutics of the Subject? Would it be because, unlike Plato, the Greek moralist reveals the aristocrat as a failure, as the result of a mistaken pedagogical choice or as the portrait of his community?