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Parrhesia as an Aesthetics of Existence in Michel Foucault

Özcan Yılmaz Sütcü1
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1 İzmir Katip Çelebi Üniveristesi, Sosyal ve Beşeri BilimlerFakültesi, Felsefe Bölümü 35620, İzmir , Turkey
BIJP 2019, 9(3), 693–711; https://doi.org/10.18491/beytulhikme.1507
Received: 13 July 2019 | Published online: 23 July 2019
© 2019 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Towards the end of his life, Michel Foucault followed Nietzsche and outlined “arts of the self” or more generally “aesthetics of existence”. By this, he understood a series of creative and experimental times and techniques in which the individual transformed himself/herself into a work of art. Nietzsche, as well, saw the philosopher/artist as a figure transforming himself/herself into a work of art. However, all the works of Foucault can be said to be the history of the subject and the possibilities of getting out of this history. In his early works, Foucault expounded the modes of transforming people into subjects. In his late works, he has questioned the possibilities of the individual getting out of the transformation codes. The fact that the individual makes himself/herself as an artwork rises on this basis. This article focuses on and inquires the very possibility of being the art of self without narration based on Foucault's late work.

Keywords
Aesthetics
parrhesia
aesthetics of existence
ethics of existence
care of self.
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