Parrhesia
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Border zones and detention centers are often characterized as spaces that concretize a permanent " state of exception " where resistance is deemed unlikely. This article explores hunger striking and lip-sewing practices of migrants and... more
The problematic I want to initially explore is what would be a Foucauldian description of politics? We can look to his later works, particularly the College de France lectures, to find his work on subjectivation and ethics of the care of... more
Human drama and conflicts have enormously inspired Greek tragedies, which are characterized by "timelessness" and "universality", and thus, can "host" individual conflict cases, individual human pain and suffering. Theoretical and... more
What does it mean, the king is naked? The earlier version of this essay, which discusses the political implications of the concept of truth by Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, and Alain Badiou with reference to Plato’s allegory of the cave... more
A questão colocada indica uma meta (e metafísica), a de apreender a essência do documentário. Uma meta certamente pretenciosa; afinal, é notória a dificuldade encontrada por cineastas e teóricos do cinema em estabelecer uma definição do... more
Michel Foucault’nun Pierre Rivière’i - Cevriye DEMİR GÜNEŞ Öz Michel Foucault, 19. yüzyıl Fransa’sında Pierre Rivière adındaki sıradan köylü bir gencin işlemiş olduğu aile cinayetini, Annemi, Kız Kardeşimi ve Erkek Kardeşimi Katleden... more
"Ethics in organizations, raising concerns, and whistleblowing have been previously theorized through Foucault’s work on the power/knowledge bond. However, approaching these issues through the work from Foucault’s third period on... more
En la última etapa de su trabajo, Foucault acusa un nuevo desplazamiento metodológico en sus estudios, acompañado de una serie de interrogantes nuevos. En esta ocasión centrará sus indagaciones en torno al sujeto, esto es, en los procesos... more
Asking how post-crisis countercultural formations compose new means of resisting an unjust economic order, this essay centers the tiny homes movement, which takes the financialization and commodification of housing as a warrant for... more
Abstract: Dance bequeaths a conflicted legacy for resisting neoliberalism: the same portfolio careers; pick-up companies; and freelance working practices through which the artist-entrepreneur negotiates and survives the exigencies of the... more
« [M]oi, qui ne sçay rien, m’en suis voulu mesler » : Blaise de Monluc dit se « mêler » d’écrire l’histoire pour se distinguer des historiographes « lettrés », comme le font également, à la même époque, les frères du Bellay. Tous font... more
This paper analyzes Xenophon’s somewhat enigmatic exploration of the concept of parrhēsía, which denotes ‘frank’ and ‘true’ speech. Although Xenophon never deploys any form of the term parrhēsía, his use of the verb parrhēsiázomai and of... more
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the political possibilities which are made possible by the theoretical studies of philosophers such as Michel Foucaut with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and by a micrological perspective... more
In this dissertation, I will consider the multiple trajectories of the thought of Michel Foucault in the 1970s and 1980s, offering an approach through which his writings on power and knowledge on one hand, and ethics and the self on the... more
This book offers an original reading of Michel Foucault’s project of a history of truth that showcases its philosophical and ethico-political relevance. While Foucault’s work is generally interpreted as defending an anti-normative,... more
This article examines how Christians who had been deprived of the direct sponsorship of the state articulated their claims for political and religious freedom. I examine four cases from the fifth and sixth century in the Eastern Roman... more
This paper begins by taking seriously former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass' response in his What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? to systematic violence and oppression. He claims that direct argumentation is not the ideal... more
Rastrea y examina la función de la filosofía y los efectos que ha producido en el campo educativo y pedagógico. Para ello se ha situado en las herramientas conceptuales y metodológicas de Michel Foucault esbozadas en sus últimos trabajos.... more
This article combines Foucault's exploration of the ancient Greek concept of parrhesia with the novels of Joseph Heller to attempt to arrive at a more complete critical position for an author whose work, aside from his first novel, is... more
À la fin du premier semestre 1982, Michel Foucault prononce à l’Université Victoria de Toronto un cycle de conférences intitulé "Dire vrai sur soi-même". Le thème de ces conférences, s’inscrivant dans le cadre du projet d’une généalogie... more
Cet ouvrage propose une lecture originale du projet foucaldien d'une histoire de la vérité qui vise à en mettre clairement en lumière les enjeux éthiques et politiques, grâce à l'établissement d'une confrontation entre les analyses de... more
On retrouve alors, maintenant explicitement employé par Foucault, le terme d’agonistique, qui décrit la structure conditionnant de l’énonciation de la vérité dans le contexte de la démocratie grecque. Foucault parle d’un champ agonistique... more
Resumen A partir de los análisis de Foucault en su última etapa, respecto a los grecolatinos y cristianos y la ética del cuidado de sí,en relación especial a la figura de los cínicos, buscamos pensar el vínculo entre el pensamiento... more
L’expression « vérité héroïque » (III, 12 : heroikè alètheia) a posé problème aux philologues, qui ont souvent tenté de la corriger. L’article montre que rien n’autorise de telles « corrections », à partir d’un rapprochement avec un... more
This paper draws attention to Foucault’s genealogy of critique. In a series of inquiries, Foucault traced the origins and trajectories of critical practices from the ancient tradition of parrhesia to the enlightenment and the (neo)liberal... more
Foucault on parrhesia and enlightenment and teaching
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Özet Parrhesia Antik Yunanda, kişiler arasında " hakikati söylemek " üzerine düzenlenen bir sözel etkinliktir. Parrhesia'yı icra eden kişiye ise parrhesiastes denilmektedir. Parrhesia etkinliğinin amacı, aşağıdan-yukarıya doğru asimetrik... more
The American conception of free speech is primarily defined as the freedom to say whatever one wants, with little regard for the quality, context, or impact of the speech. Thus, American free speech doctrine is often characterized as... more
This article intends to see to what extend Augustine’s Confessions may correspond to a kind of parrhesia, as analyzed by Michel Foucault about ancient christian writers in Le courage de la vérité. The classical parrhesia (freedom of... more
The aim of this article is to study parrhesia as a form of political performativity. The study of parrhesia as a speech act has been inaugurated by the researches of Lorenzini, who has proposed an in-depth analysis of the parrhesiastic... more
This essay challenges dominant interpretations of Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia as affirming an ethical, non-political conception of truth-telling. I read the lectures instead as depicting truth-telling as an always political... more