El gesto cínico: notas sobre la política que viene

The Cynic school having had a secondary role in the history of philosophy, is not an indicator of a silence that reflects an inability to say something of philosophical and even political interest. On the contrary, we must consider that the cynical attitude towards others and towards himself, is the manifestation of a philosophical Bíos, a particularly anchored way-of-being in choosing an êthos, which refers to the starting the scene of a political attitude, in the form of an investment of traditionally accepted values. The following paper is intended for demonstrating that there is, in the way-of-being of the ancient cynics, a philosophical attitude and a political claim that can be framed in the category of “gesture” (a means without purpose) given by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, category that has a strong political sense. On the other hand, the analysis of Michel Foucault, about the cynical êthos and its choice of a “true” life as a radically different life, which is manifested even in the materiality of its biological life, puts us on the clue of reading the philosophical cynical Bíos as a political gesture that anticipates a current political necessity, a profanation. The central concepts on which this article is built, will be addressed from a hermeneutic philosophical-political analysis.

• Autores: Rojas Martínez, Javier
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad de San Buenaventura
• Repositorio: Repositorio USB
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.usb.edu.co:10819/4874
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10819/4874
• Palabra clave: Gesto; Escuela cínica; Política; Profanación; Ethics; Policy; Profanation; Gesture; Cynic school; Hermenéutica; Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 - Crítica e interpretación
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Colombia