Discourse &Truth and Parresia (The Chicago Foucault Project)

Michel Foucault ; Nancy Luxon [translator]; Henri-Paul Fruchad [editor]; Daniele Lorenzini [editor]

ISBN 10: 022650946X / ISBN 13: 9780226509464

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2019

About this Item

22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 276pp. End notes, index. Black cloth in dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourse &Truth and Parresia (The Chicago Foucault Project)
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022650946X
• ISBN 13: 9780226509464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

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.
 

About the Authors

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. His many books in English include The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality, and “Discourse and Truth” and “Parrēsia,” the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. 

Henri-Paul Fruchaud is an editor of Michel Foucault’s posthumous works.

Daniele Lorenzini is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Frédéric Gros is a professor at the Université Paris XII. Krzysztof Fijalkowski is senior lecturer in Critical Studies at Norwich University College of the Arts. Michael Richardson is a writer and translator. Together, Fijalkowski and Richardson have translated Refusal of the Shadow, Surrealism against the Current, and Georges Bataille: an Intellectual Biography.

Nancy Luxon is associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.