Fearless speech
by
 
Foucault, Michel.

Title
Fearless speech

Author
Foucault, Michel.

ISBN
9781584350118

Personal Author
Foucault, Michel.

Publication Information
Los Angeles, Ca. : Semiotext(e) : [Distributed by MIT Press], c2001.

Physical Description
183 p. ; 18 cm.

General Note
"...Foucault did not write, correct, or edit any part of the text which follows, ...and [it] does not reflect his own lecture notes"--Preface.
 
"...compiled from tape-recordings made of six lectures delivered, in English, by Michael Foucault at the University of California at Berkeley in the Fall Term of 1983"--Preface.

Contents
The word Parrhesia Meaning of the word Evolution of the word -- Parrhesia in Euripides -- Parrhesia in the crisis of democratic institutions -- Parrhesia in the care of the self Socratic parrhesia Practice of parrhesia.

Abstract
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'

Subject Term
Parrhēsia (The Greek word)
 
Greek language -- Etymology.

Added Author
Pearson, Joseph.


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