La scena politica della verità. Fontana e il magistero di Foucault

This essay explores Alessandro Fontana’s interpretation of Michel Foucault’s work as a political theatre of truth, focusing on the notions of style and fiction, and on the centrality of the practice of lecturing. A long-term collaborator of the French philosopher and an inspired intellectual and teacher himself, Fontana knew, perhaps better than anyone, what doing research with Foucault could, and can, mean. In clarifying the mode of enunciation of Foucauldian analyses, he provides the reader with a number of hints which are key to grasping Foucault’s style of research and the political implications of an aesthetics of existence.