Estéticas y políticas de la existencia en la literatura antigua: las lecturas de Foucault y Nietzsche

Abstract

The core aim of this paper is to analyse the similarities between the Foucauldian notion of parrhesia and Nietzsche’s Redlichkeit. Both concepts play a key role in the appraisal of literature as a process of creation of unprecedented forms of being. Both parrhesia and Redlichkeit are rooted in our emotions and share an agonistic structure. These traits are particularly well instantiated in Greek tragedy (Euripides) and in the literary way of living cultivated by ancient Cynicism.