Philosophy, politics and truth. Philosophy asdiagnostic activity in Michel Foucault

Abstract

In this article we would like to contribute to this dossier – focused on the interrelation of the notions of philosophy, politics, and truth – by analyzing the way in which Michel Foucault characterized philosophy as a diagnosis activity of the present. We will thus review the way in which the formation of the human sciences, as discourses of truth regarding “the human”, has been configured as a recurrent target of the Foucaultian work of diagnosing the present. Therefore, we do not intend to address the question of politics as a topic within the Foucaultian corpus, but rather to examine the political dimension of the Foucaultian philosophy in its concern to unravel the present.