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Discourse and Truth and Parresia

Discourse and Truth and Parresia

Foucault, Michel
Fruchaud, Henri-Paul
Lorenzini, Daniele

Paperback

Series: Chicago Foucault Project

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 5, 2027

ISBN10: 0226854418
ISBN13: 9780226854410
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jan 5 2027
Pages: 295
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Foucault's lectures on the moral and political challenges of truth-telling--now in paperback. 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.

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