La filosofía, práctica entre prácticas. Ideología, verdad y sujeto en Foucault y Althusser

Abstract

The idea of the present article is to approximate the thought of Althusser and Foucault through the concepts of truth, ideology, subject and their modes of conceiving the philosophical practice, to suggest towards the end a possible modulation of the government concept. Without making a complete review of these concepts, which would be impossible in bounded space, but assaying elective crossing points where a significant convergence can be produced. Just as the question of ideology, in its Althusserian complexion, is crucial to understand identification processes that do not necessarily pass through "awareness" or "rational decision", the same happens with the ethical practice as studied by the last Foucault, which allows us to think about the constitution of a political subject that is not passively subordinated to the dominant power relations. Thus, while it is usual to oppose Foucault with Althusser because of their respective rejection or recourse of ideology notion, this imply remaining at the level of a merely homonymous analysis of the discourses and of the conceptual practices displayed by both authors; as we shall see, there are very strong contact and convergence points in relation to the ideology/truth pair, in particular the way they interlock with the power, which raises a shared problem in certain nodal points to be inquired.