Fearless speech /
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Author / Creator: | Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 |
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Imprint: | Los Angeles, Ca. : Semiotext(e) : [Distributed by MIT Press], c2001. |
Description: | 183 p. ; 18 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4561354 |
Summary: | This volume gathers together a series of lectures given by Foucault on Parrhesia, the Greek notion of fearless speech. This Parrhesia decribes the speech of someone who has the moral qualities to speck the truth, even if it defies convention or arouses danger. |
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Item Description: | "...Foucault did not write, correct, or edit any part of the text which follows, ...and [it] does not reflect his own lecture notes"--Preface. "...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. |
Physical Description: | 183 p. ; 18 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183). |
ISBN: | 1584350113 |