Abstract

This paper focuses on Foucault´s approach to the tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. My goal is to trace the differences between the analysis that the author carries out in his works during the 70s and what can be found in his latest courses. During this last stage, appears an interpretation no longer limited to the genealogical description of how to exercise power, but rather shows the descriptive implications of this recognition. It is through this turn that the ethical dimension of this genealogical description becomes explicit, a matter that is expressed in a clearer position that distinguishes truth from juridical-discursive knowledge. This approach shows various possibilities of destabilization, change, and constitution at the level of this recognition.