Foucault and Genet. Ethic, Writing and Subjectivity

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to investigate one of the connections between philosophy and literature, taking as its nucleus a "writing of oneself" potentially remarkable in the mood of the literary creator. Michel Foucault's works on the "ethics of self-care" or "stylistics of existence" are a starting point for recognizing in literary creation a strategic space that allows us to illustrate how another relationship with morality, ethics and politics is possible. In this sense, the works of the French writer Jean Genet provide us with a series of resources and research strategies to enter into this possibility. And this is mainly due to the fact that Genet's texts express a writing committed to a creative imagination that constantly seeks new spaces of freedom and allows it to express another way of constituting itself and interpreting reality. This is why Genet and his work will be taken in this work as a literary projection of the "ethics of self-care" in which writing stands as a battlefield from which to oppose resistance.