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 - 10.17851/1983-3636.6.0.201-217
Subject(s) - portrait , subject (documents) , hermeneutics , philosophy , focus (optics) , reflection (computer programming) , humanities , epistemology , art , art history , physics , optics , computer science , programming language , library science
We intend to relate Plutarch and Foucault through acharacter present in the work of both thinkers, namely, Alcibiades,the eugenés. A comparison between the two representations showsthat the focus of interest differs in each case. Our reflection is basedon the following questions: Why doesn’t Foucault discuss Plutarch’sAlcibiades in The Hermeneutics of the Subject? Would it be because,unlike Plato, the Greek moralist reveals the aristocrat as a failure, asthe result of a mistaken pedagogical choice or as the portrait of hiscommunity?