ION AND THE PARRHESIA OF PRESENT: CLUES FOR INVESTIGATING THE PARRHESIA FROM ATHENS TO BRAZIL

Abstract

This article proposes a discussion on the studies of parrhesia porposed by Michel Foucault in The Government of Self and Others (2010) and in Berkeley Conferences (2013), based in tragedies of Euripedes, especially in Ion. I understand the corpus of analisys from the Euripedian tragedy itself and also for reports from Brazil currentily that serve as the materialization of discourses with regard to parrhesia and anti-parrhesia. Methodologically, I propose a comparative study based on Foucault's proposal on parrhesia to think about what constitutes anti-parrhesia, in Athens and in contemporary Brazil. The analyses carried out point to the question of citizenship as intrinsic to the exercise of parrhesia, as well as to the exercise of anti-parrhesia; these two discursive formations of the act of saying, true and not true respectively, are presented as ramifications for the principle that citizenship is a right.

KEYWORDS: Parrehsia; Anti-Parrhesia; Citizenship; Brazil; Topicality.