FOUCAULT AND PARRHESIA: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS
FOUCAULT AND PARRHESIA: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: In the final stage of his life, Foucault devoted himself to a project of a genealogy of critique. This genealogy of critique made him focus on the Greek notion of parrhēsia as a form speaking the truth. This paper aims at analyzing the notion of parrhesia as well as the various aspects of the parrhesiastic attitudes and functions. Tracing the tensions and connections in the act of parrhesia I try to emphasize the relationship between the will of truth that constitutes philosophy and the will of power that mainly represents politics by following the last courses held by Michel Foucault at the Collége de France.

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