Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, Laura. Hacia una Filosofía de la salvación en el pensamiento de Michel Foucault. Cuad. Sur, Filos. [online]. 2006, n.35, pp. 137-157. ISSN 1668-7434.

Towards a philosophy of salvation designates the passage worked in Foucault 's thinking of a philosophy that in the 1970s proclaimed as task the need of rhetorisizm, towards a philosophy, which years later, will be put forward as practical or exercise of certain spirituality. If in the first, the concept of discursive practice, key to access of knowledge and power relations, allowed to capture how knowledge - including the philosophical one - had contributed into modernity to the setting up of a rule- governed society , in the second, philosophy as practice will try to clarify the possibility of a philosophy and knowledge whose own exercise will be of advantage to the salvation of the individual , the exploration of such possibility is found by Foucault in his dialogue with the tradition of western thought: Classic and Greco - Roman philosophy. This current work sets out to answer these questions: What does this philosophy of salvation consist of ? What relationships should be established between a know-power related philosophy and a philosophy whose aim is the salvation of the individual?

Keywords : Philosophy; Foucault; Salvation.