Fearless speech

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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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Summary

This volume gathers together a series of lectures given by Foucault on Parrhesia, the Greek notion of fearless speech. This Parrhesia decribes the speech of someone who has the moral qualities to speck the truth, even if it defies convention or arouses danger.