Listening as Therapy in Plutarch: a Focaultian Reading
Keywords:
Listening, truth, cure, FoucaultAbstract
This article intends to investigate the importance of the hearing skill in the Greek-Roman Antiquity, especially in what concerns to the two treaties of Plutarco, as an exercise that is capable of providing the cure for an illness that had been considered almost incurable: the chattiness. Starting from the last courses and written material by Michel Foucault we can realize in what way the listening skill represented an essential practice for the subjectivation of the truth, which served as a defense against the unexpected or unhappy happenings of one´s existence and mainly as a therapy for the illnesses of the soul.
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