TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foucault,Michel
AU  - Pearson,Joseph
TI  - Fearless speech
T2  - Semiotext(e) foreign agents
SN  - 1584350113
AV  - BJ1421 .F68 2001
U1  - 194 21
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Los Angeles, Ca[lif.]
PB  - Semiotext(e)
KW  - Parrhēsia (The Greek word)
KW  - Greek language
KW  - Etymology
N1  - " ... 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; Includes bibliographical references; 1. The word Parrhesia : the meaning of the word : Frankness ; Truth ; Danger ; Criticism ; Duty -- The evolution of the word : Rhetoric ; Politics ; Philosophy -- 2. Parrhesia in Euripides : The Phoenician woman -- Hippolytus -- The bacchae -- Electra -- Ion : Hermes' prologue ; Apollo's silence ; Ion's role Creusa's role -- Orestes -- Problematizing Parrhesia -- 3. Parrhesia in the crisis of democratic institutions -- 4. Parrhesia in the care of the self : Socratic Parrhesia -- The practice of Parrhesia : In human relationships : Community life ; Public life ; Personal relationships -- In techniques of examination : Preliminary remarks ; Solitary self-examination ; Self-diagnosis ; Self-testing -- Concluding remarks
N2  - This volume is based on a series of lectures given by Foucault on 'parrhesia', the Greek notion of fearless speech. This term describes the speech of anyone with the moral qualities to speak the truth, even in defiance of convention
ER  -