L’invisibile presente. Note su Michel Foucault e Henry Corbin

This essay delves into Michel Foucault’s engagement with the Iranian Revolution (1978-1979), exploring the largely unnoticed relationship between his account of Shia Islam spirituality and that of Henry Corbin. Rather than reducing Foucault’s analyses to orientalist fervour, the essay examines how Foucault radically reworks Corbin’s fundamental tenets, that is, how the spiritual forms which, for Corbin, ensure an unbroken continuity between the physical and meta-physical world, become, for Foucault, a disruptive force. Spirituality thus emerges as a practice of de-subjectivation that breaks with the hegemonic lines of Western philosophical and political reason.