Diagnóstico e batalha: sobre a dupla caracterização da filosofia por Foucault

Abstract

Abstract: The present paper intends to explore that which looks to be a bifrontal characterization of philosophy in the works of Michel Foucault. On one hand, a notion of the task of philosophy more common in the exegeses of his thought, which is the idea that philosophy is a diagnostic of the present, idea that Foucault sometimes points out as originated from Kant, other time as having a Nietzschean root. On the other hand, the notion, that occurs in some texts, that genealogy, as a historical=philosophical method, is a weapon in a social conflict. In the papers, we present and discuss this philosophical Janus and interpretate it.

Keywords: Michel Foucault. Friedrich Nietzsche. Genealogy. Diagnostic. Strategy.