"Discourse and Truth" and "Parresia" de Michel Foucault

"Discourse and Truth" and "Parresia": The Chicago Foucault Project

Autor Michel Foucault Editat de Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini Introducere de Frédéric Gros Traducere de Nancy Luxon

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 iul 2019

Bazându-ne pe arhivele The Chicago Foucault Project, acest volum reconstituie un moment esențial din ultimii ani de activitate ai lui Michel Foucault. Reținem că lucrarea nu este doar o simplă transcriere, ci o ediție critică riguroasă care reunește prelegerea de la Grenoble din 1982 și, în premieră, forma integrală a cursurilor susținute la Berkeley în 1983. Structura cărții urmărește o progresie cronologică și tematică clară, pornind de la rădăcinile pre-socratice ale „vorbirii libere” (parrēsia) și ajungând la transformările sale în contextul relației dintre maestru și discipol în antichitatea târzie.

Merită menționat că Michel Foucault nu abordează aici libertatea de exprimare ca drept politic modern, ci analizează curajul moral necesar pentru a spune adevărul într-o structură de putere. Această perspectivă completează viziunea autorului din Confessions of the Flesh sau The History of Sexuality: 1, unde accentul cade pe guvernanța sinelui și pe tehnologiile subiectivității. Alternativă la The Theory, History, and Practice of Parrhesia pentru cursurile de filozofie politică sau etică, acest volum are avantajul de a oferi acces direct la vocea lui Foucault, păstrând nuanțele interacțiunilor sale academice directe.

Recomandăm acest titlu pentru claritatea expunerii, o trăsătură adesea evidențiată de critici ca fiind specifică prelegerilor sale, spre deosebire de densitatea textelor teoretice majore. Este o resursă indispensabilă pentru înțelegerea modului în care autorul a legat cercetarea istorică de fundamentele eticii politice contemporane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226509464
ISBN-10: 022650946X
Pagini: 295
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria The Chicago Foucault Project

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la filozofie sau științe politice care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile etice ale discursului public. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care „a spune adevărul” devine un act de curaj și o formă de rezistență. Este o piesă lipsă esențială din opera târzie a lui Foucault, acum disponibilă în ediție definitivă.

Despre autor

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) a fost unul dintre cei mai influenți gânditori francezi ai secolului XX, istoric al ideilor și teoretician social. Opera sa, care include titluri fundamentale precum Archäologie des Wissens și seria The History of Sexuality, investighează relația complexă dintre putere, cunoaștere și discurs. Educat la École Normale Supérieure sub îndrumarea lui Jean Hyppolite și Louis Althusser, Foucault a redefinit modul în care înțelegem instituțiile sociale (psihiatria, medicina, sistemul penal) prin metoda sa arheologică și genealogică. Prelegerile din acest volum reflectă interesul său final pentru etica subiectivității și „grija de sine”.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Notă biografică

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. Daniele Lorenzini is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. Henri-Paul Fruchaud is an editor of Michel Foucault’s posthumous works. Nancy Luxon is associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Cuprins

Abbreviations of Works by Michel Foucault
Preface
Introduction
Note on the English Edition

Parrēsia

Lecture at the University of Grenoble: May 18, 1982

Discourse and Truth

Lectures at the University of California–Berkeley: October–November 1983
Notes

Recenzii

"There are at least two reasons why this is an invaluable book. First, these lectures occurred late in his career (he died in 1984), and the reader is privy to a summation of the most important themes that tied together all of his life’s work, especially the themes of truth and power. Second, his lectures are much clearer to follow than his books, making them an excellent complement to his written work. The inclusion of the question-and-answer sessions not only helps clarify content in the lectures, but demonstrates just how deeply he read ancient texts. A valuable addition not only to Foucault’s thought and critical theory, but also to scholars of philosophy who might otherwise ignore Foucault’s writings. . . . Summing Up: Essential."

“‘Who is able to tell the truth? About what topic is it important to tell the truth? What are the relations between this activity of telling the truth and exercising power?’ These are the questions that Foucault brilliantly addresses in these formative lectures. Today, when the questions of truth and truth-telling could not be more urgent, this compendium is an indispensable resource, tracing the problems back to the fifth century BCE and recovering the birth of the very notion of the truth-teller. These lectures are unique in offering a concentrated and sharp presentation of Foucault’s history of truth-telling. Expertly edited in English by Nancy Luxon, with a brilliant critical apparatus prepared by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, this volume is a necessary companion to Foucault’s final lectures.”

“A meticulously curated and definitive edition of Foucault’s Grenoble lecture and of his legendary Berkeley seminars on the courageous practice of free speech, ‘Discourse and Truth’ provides an intimate, often moving glimpse into Foucault’s thought and person at the end of his extraordinary career. Rounding out his writings on the culture of the self in antiquity, and containing his most sustained reflections on the Cynics, the book in fact offers an unexpected genealogy of critique—of the ‘critical attitude’ and the critical bios, or form of life—in the spheres of ethics, politics, and culture, thereby mapping out a tradition that stretches from Greece and Rome to Kant and Nietzsche. The work will be seminal for generations to come. But its lessons could not be more timely, more inspiring, or more urgently needed than at our present moment.”

“Parrēsia was Foucault’s last great topic and marks one of his most vital contributions to contemporary philosophical thought. This definitive critical edition of Foucault’s lectures at Grenoble and Berkeley provides an essential guide to the development of his thinking on parrēsia that will be required reading not only for Foucault scholars but for any philosopher concerned with the relationship of ethics, truth, and power. Fruchaud and Lorenzini, ably supported for this English edition by Nancy Luxon, are owed a debt of gratitude for this superb accomplishment.”

"Foucault's lectures, interviews, and occasional pieces have long been recognized by Foucault scholars to be especially valuable in their clarity and value as supplements to Foucault's major works. . . .This is an important book for Foucault studies, and, given Foucault's influence, more broadly, for the academy."