"Discourse and Truth" and "Parresia"
Title | "Discourse and Truth" and "Parresia" PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2019-07-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022650946X |
This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, Parrēsia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled “Discourse and Truth,” given at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, which appears here for the first time in its full and correct form. Together, they provide an unprecedented account of Foucault’s reading of the Greek concept of parrēsia, often translated as “truth-telling” or “frank speech.” The lectures trace the transformation of this concept across Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought, from its origins in pre-Socratic Greece to its role as a central element of the relationship between teacher and student. In mapping the concept’s history, Foucault’s concern is not to advocate for free speech; rather, his aim is to explore the moral and political position one must occupy in order to take the risk to speak truthfully. These lectures—carefully edited and including notes and introductory material to fully illuminate Foucault’s insights—are a major addition to Foucault’s English language corpus.
The Courage of Truth
Title | The Courage of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | M. Foucault |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2011-04-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0230309100 |
The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditionsbased on courage and conviction.
Fearless Speech
Title | Fearless Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | Semiotext(e) |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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Lectures given as part of Foucault's seminar on Discourse and truth, at the University of California at Berkeley, 1983. The seminar was devoted to the study of the Greek notion of 'parrhesia' or 'frankness in speaking the truth'
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
Title | Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-06-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0226922081 |
Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. Ranging broadly from Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault traces the early use of truth-telling in ancient Greece and follows it through to practices of self-examination in monastic times. By the nineteenth century, the avowal of wrongdoing was no longer sufficient to satisfy the call for justice; there remained the question of who the “criminal” was and what formative factors contributed to his wrong-doing. The call for psychiatric expertise marked the birth of the discipline of psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as its widespread recognition as the foundation of criminology and modern criminal justice. Published here for the first time, the 1981 lectures have been superbly translated by Stephen W. Sawyer and expertly edited and extensively annotated by Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt. They are accompanied by two contemporaneous interviews with Foucault in which he elaborates on a number of the key themes. An essential companion to Discipline and Punish, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling will take its place as one of the most significant works of Foucault to appear in decades, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in his thought.
The Government of Self and Others
Title | The Government of Self and Others PDF eBook |
Author | M. Foucault |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2010-04-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0230274730 |
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parr?sia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing practices of truth-telling in ancient democracies and tyrannies and offers a new perspective on the specific relationship of philosophy to politics.
The Government of Self and Others
Title | The Government of Self and Others PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 427 |
Release | 2011-04-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0312572921 |
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parresia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing practices of truth-telling in ancient democracies and tyrannies.
Foucault on the Politics of Parrhesia
Title | Foucault on the Politics of Parrhesia PDF eBook |
Author | T. Dyrberg |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2014-03-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137368357 |
Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their people and vice versa. This important collection compiles and analyses Foucault's views on parrhesia to shed new light on his ideas on the importance of truth-telling in democracies.