This dissertation intends to understand to what extent the French philosopher Michel Foucault can be read as a superstar. The superstar is a category created by Silviano Santiago, in 1973, to analyze the happenings and performances of the singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso. The superstar operates through other notions coined by Santiago (2019) in other of his essays, such as desbunde and curtição, in addition to proposing a new relationship (in contrast to the star) with the press, with the artifice and with the body. In the configuration we give to the category, it also intertwines these relationships with notions such as humor, public and private, natural life and politically qualified life. Understanding that the category of superstar does not perfectly suit the figure of an intellectual, we displace three major categories by Costica Bradatan (2020): performance, narrative and audience. Although he used those categories to think about the philosopher-martyr; in this dissertation, they are displaced to better exemplify the philosopher-superstar in relation to three other terms: interview, biography and politics; respectively.