Speech and truth. Lectures on Parresia 1982-1983. Foucault M.

In the fall of 1983, Michelle Foucault reads a cycle of six lectures called “Speech and Truth” at the California University, first presented in this book in the form of a complete critical publication. In these lectures, the richness of the concepts of Passia and its strategic role in the ethical and political thoughts of Foucault are manifested with all the obviously.

In particular, Foucault explores the transformations of this concept in the ancient world: Parresia, originally the political right of the Athenian citizen, has one of the main features of philosophical speech, and then, in filming and in philosophical life in general, in to the extent that it can be provocative and even scandalous; Finally, in the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Parresia turns into the foundation of relations between the teacher and the student in the culture of himself. By analyzing the Parresia, Foucault at the same time develops his own project of the history of the present and marks the milestones of the genealogy of a critical attitude characteristic of modern and new time.

This publication also publishes a decryption of a lecture read by Michel Foucault in May 1982 at the University of Grenoble to specialists in ancient philosophy, it represents an earlier and somewhat excellent stage in its thoughts about Passion.