Consideraciones sobre la experiencia según Foucault y su impacto en la Antropología filosófica.

Abstract

Philosophical Anthropology studies human

being as a metaphysical problem, because it is

subject and object at the same time. So, the human

being is impossible to reduce to a scientific thing.

In this sense, Philosophical Anthropology develops

an always open hermeneutical task between human

sciences, philosophy and –many times- theology.

Michel Foucault has studied the historical

construction of this philosophical field as a strange

historical event in the West, defined by this french

philosopher as an experience not reducible to a

subjective experience. This is a gateway to his

critique of the Philosophical Antropology.

This paper tries, at first, to approach the concept of

experience through some Foucault writings, which

inquire into the historical grown of human being.

Secondly, it shows what I perceive as a background

tension that can take in different edges, for

example: the historical and the founding, the effects

of the foucauldian proposal and the classical

approaches of Philosophical Anthropology, or what

I’m going to call an "anonymous experience"

without meaning and the experience of the meaning

of life from consciousness.