La cultura y el "combate de las formas": claves para pensar la dimensión afirmativa de la ética foucaultiana

Abstract

Taking into account the main objections posed to Michel Foucault's ethical problematization, in the present paper we propose to reconstruct two topics that contribute to think it's affirmative dimension: culture and the "combat of forms". Both culture as an object of critique and possible transformation, and the forms as historical substitutes for universals, ideals, and transcendentals, constitute constant references in Foucault's thought that, in the light of the explanations and theorical-methodological specifications provided by his lasts enquiries, allow to clarify the connection between the genealogy's critical strand with the affirmative orientation of the art of living. Proposing the truth-power bond as a characteristic disposition of our culture, and specifying a polemical constitution of ethos which shows an indefectible bond with the configurations of the life in common, we will indicate the contributions and the questions that emerge to go on thinking (from) Foucault's ethical problematization.