Oedipus Rex as a philosophical and political strategy Moreno Pestaña, José Luis This article studies Michel Foucault’s interpretation of the tragedy Oedipus Rex. The analysis seeks to uncover the various intellectual strategies around his study. First, Foucault takes a position in the political debate about prisons in France in the early 1970s. Second, his analysis of the tragedy contributes to position his work in the field of the philosophical history of truth, by singularising his project and separating it from the dominant models of the history of philosophy. Third, Foucault aims to differentiate himself from the results of the historical work of the Paris School. This article analyses how Foucault depends on these interpretations and how it helps him to acquire philosophical relevance. Through the sociology of intellectual history’s perspective, the article elaborates the contributions and limits of Foucault’s perspective. 2024-02-09T08:37:31Z 2024-02-09T08:37:31Z 2020 info:eu-repo/semantics/article The Sociological Review 2020, Vol. 68(5) 1092– 1107 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/88780 https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119900117 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional SAGE