RODRIGO DE OLIVEIRA FIGUEIREDO

In his first lecture at PUC-RIO in 1973, Michel Foucault stated that one of his aims was to show that political and economic conditions are not an obstacle to the subject of knowledge, but rather what it is formed by, and therefore the condition for the production of truth. In this research, I investigate the foucauldian outline of a "history of truth", highlighting, firstly, that it is a type of historical analysis that distances itself from the search for an origin, based on the conception of knowledge as an invention, taken from Nietzsche's texts. Secondly, through passages from various texts, lectures and interviews given by Foucault in the 1970s, I highlight the concept of a mutual implication between power and knowledge in the production of subjects and objects. Thirdly, I want to emphasize Foucault's distancing from a type of thinking he called "academic marxism", a tendency that conceives of power as a factor that obscures the subject's relationship with the truth. Based on these points, the idea is to show the importance and specificity of the question of truth in Foucault's philosophy.