How does human existence shape life into a way of being and into a creative act of freedom?

Through an exciting engagement with Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Vladimir Jankelevitch, and Richard Rorty, this study reconstructs the relationship between body and truth, vision and hearing, light and darkness with Socrates as a body of thought, truth, and irony.

The first book of the trilogy on the Politics of Life revisits, with a groundbreaking perspective, the relationship between private and public, love and death, friendship and democracy, constituting much more than an academic treatise.

It is an invitation to self-care, self-governance, and irony as a politics of life. Tasis opens an "elsewhere" in thought. A place of suspension between everyday life and truth.

There the subject can self-create and resist power relations. Irony allows the citizen to poetically shape their life, to accept alienation without despair.

In this way, one can claim the self-governance of the self. With a philosophically rigorous yet literarily enchanting style, this book speaks to those who refuse to reduce life to mere living, freedom to necessity, meaning to image.

An essential read for those seeking the philosophical tools for shaping a free life in the image-driven society.