Michel Foucault, "Fearless Speech"

Michel Foucault, "Fearless Speech"
Semiotext | 2001 | ISBN: 1584350113 | 128 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

This volume gathers a series of lectures Michel Foucault gave on the Greek notion of parrhesia, or fearless speech. Parrhesia is the speech of someone who has the moral qualities required to speak the truth, even if it differs from what the majority of people believes and one faces danger for speaking it.


Summary: Brave speech too
Rating: 5

Interesting ideas from a Brave Man, he is not afraid of being politically incorrect he says what he thinks and there is a good basement in his ideas.


Summary: An inspiring read that deserves more attention
Rating: 5

This compact volume makes a good read and a great gift to any thinking person. A series of transcribed lectures, Fearless Speech introduces the notion of parrhesia - roughly "telling of the unvarnished truth" - as it has developed from Greek thought onwards. Foucault, acting here as the master historian of ideas, is precise and erudite, his language is clear, and his story inspires. The discussion begins with the origins of the word in early Greek thought and its use by Euripides in tragedy, and then moves on to discuss the place of parrhesia in democratic institutions, and ultimately its practices and its games.



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