scholarly journals Michel Foucault: ejercicios espirituales para materialistas

2016 ◽  
pp. 60-74
Author(s):  
Luis Roca Jusmet
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Pierre Hadot

  Se defiende una de las propuestas de Michel Foucault en sus últimos años: la de unos ejercicios espirituales para materialistas. Al respecto, se analiza la relación histórica que establece Michel Foucault entre filosofía y espiritualidad, y cómo la pérdida de la espiritualidad de la filosofía está relacionada con la influencia progresiva de la teología y no de la ciencia. También se esboza la noción de cuidado de sí, de ejercicios espirituales, desde la filosofía helenista y romana. A partir de la comparación de este planteamiento foucaultiano con el de Pierre Hadot, de quien tomara el término ejercicio espiritual para referirse a las prácticas de la filosofía antigua, se pueden contrastar sus planteamientos con los del espiritualista Hadot, y concluir que, en ningún caso, es posible entender que Foucault deriva en sus últimos años hacia alguna forma de espiritualismo. Tampoco es justo considerar que el planteamiento de Foucault se dirige hacia un dandismo de tipo esteticista. Michel Foucault siempre considerará el cuidado de sí en relación con los otros. Se trata, finalmente, de cómo equilibrar la ética con la política, es decir, el gobierno de sí y el gobierno de los otros, sin recurrir a ninguna trascendencia espiritualista.    

Questioning the Presence of the Past

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-91
Author(s):  
Thomas Kriza
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
World View ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Existential Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Truth Claim ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Pierre Hadot

Abstract This paper questions the contemporary turn towards horizons of existential meaning going back to antiquity especially in the shape of a turn to religion by pointing to crucial differences between antique conceptions of thought and their modern revivals. Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault interpret antique thought as spiritual exercises to perfect human existence, exposing an inherent existential relevance and connection to a peculiar conception of truth. I argue that because of these ties to a truth claim deeply alien to the modern scientific world-view, antique horizons of existential meaning cannot be revived within modern frames of thought. Their contemporary presence is more likely the expression of the deeply ambivalent modern relationship to premodern horizons of existential meaning, rather than a genuine revival.

Ethics of security: A genealogical introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-71
Author(s):  
Andrea Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Ethical Dimension ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pierre Hadot

This article analyses the set of ethical questions underlying the emergence of the modern politics of security, as articulated, in particular, in the work of Thomas Hobbes. An ethic is here understood – in line with its ancient philosophical use and the interpretation advanced by authors such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot – as a domain of reflections and practices related to the cultivation and conversion of the self ( askēsis, metanoia). The article aims to demonstrate that, besides attending to the physical safety of the state and its citizens, modern apparatuses of security are also crucially implicated in the formation of their subjects as ethical and autonomous individuals. To substantiate this thesis, the article first illustrates how, since the first appearance of the term in the vocabulary of Western thought – and in Seneca’s work in particular – theories of security have been intimately tied to the cultivation of the self. It thus interprets Hobbes’s reflections on the subject as the upshot of a substantive, if implicit, re-articulation of Seneca’s ethic of security, by focusing on the two authors’ respective understandings of (a) autonomy, (b) the world, (c) ascesis, and (d) politics. Overall, it is suggested that the differences between the two authors testify to a wider political-historical shift: in modern regimes of governmentality, the ethical dimension of security no longer defines the rightful exercise of political power, but rather appears as an object of social and economic governance.

A New Look at Spirituality

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-209
Author(s):  
Matteo Soranzo
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
Pierre Hadot ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Western Esotericism

The article examines the theme of spiritual transformation in three poets (Lazzarelli, Augurelli, Mantuanus) writing in the context of hermeticism, alchemy and monastic spirituality. Building on current scholarship on Western Esotericism and religious pluralism, the article argues that: 1) whether it occurs in hermetic, alchemical, or hagiographical contexts, spiritual transformation is characterized by recurring linguistic features and motifs consistent with Antoine Faivre’s definition of esotericism; 2) the presence of spiritual transformation and its corresponding language outside of proper esoteric contexts, suggests approaching this theme as a discursive strategy, whose features correspond to von Stuckrad’s definition of ‘language of experiential knowledge’. In a dialogue with Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot, the article suggests taking this phenomenon as part of the Renaissance rediscovery of philosophy as a way of life, and an instance of a broader notion of spirituality.

scholarly journals EXERCÍCIOS ESPIRITUAIS E PARRHESIA NOS ENSAIOS DE MONTAIGNE

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (32) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Alexandre Soares Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Pierre Hadot

Em seus últimos trabalhos, Michel Foucault destacou a importância da parrhesia (libertas, franc-parler, “dizer-verdadeiro”) nas práticas filosóficas da Antiguidade, em uma reflexão mais ampla sobre a “espiritualidade”, inspirada em grande medida na obra de Pierre Hadot. A noção de parrhesia mostra-se interessante também na abordagem dos Ensaios de Montaigne, nos quais podemos reconhecer uma série de “exercícios espirituais”, no sentido dado à expressão por Hadot: práticas, não apenas intelectuais, que visam a efetuar uma transformação no sujeito. O “ensaio”, em Montaigne, se apresenta como um exercício de “escrita de si” apoiado na leitura dos antigos, sobretudo dos filósofos do período helenístico. Essa ascese filosófica do gênero ensaístico também interessou a Foucault.

scholarly journals A arte de viver em tempos de pandemia

Dialogia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 149-161
Author(s):  
Jordana Da Silva Corrêa ◽  
Neiva Afonso Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Pierre Hadot

O artigo utiliza o método de pesquisa bibliográfico-reflexivo para apresentar os conceitos de “arte de viver”, “exercícios espirituais” e “práticas de si”, trabalhados, cada um a seu modo, por Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) e Michel Foucault (1926-1984). O objetivo é apontar que, mesmo em meio aos problemas trazidos e evidenciados pela pandemia de COVID-19, é possível a transformação do indivíduo, no sentido de que, em meio ao caos, sempre deve haver esperança, de modo a modificar o olhar do sujeito em relação ao outro. Com isso, trazemos duas sessões principais: uma, que retoma o contexto da pandemia e, outra, que aponta, por meio das teorias filosóficas e dos dois referenciais, uma nova maneira de viver.

scholarly journals PIERRE HADOT

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-236
Author(s):  
Ruth de Paula Martins Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Pierre Hadot ◽  
Sciences Sociales

Pierre Hadot é considerado um dos expoentes da intelectualidade francesa, tendo influenciado, inclusive, Michel Foucault. Filólogo e filósofo foi diretor da École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) e professor no Collège de France, em que ocupava a cadeira de História do Pensamento Grego e Romano, passando ser professor honorário a partir de 1991. Escreveu diversas obras, dentre elas: O que é a Filosofia Antiga?; O véu de Isís; Elogio da Filosofia Antiga; Elogio de Sócrates; Wittgenstein et les limites du langage; dentre outros.

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