July 21, 2006
Paul Allen Miller's Truth Telling in Foucault in Parrhesia refers to Foucault's 1982-83 course at the College de France, "Le gouvernement de soi et des autres," .this is concerned with “truthtelling”---or more literally, and the constitution of the subject in relation to historically discrete structures of power.
In these lectures Foucault traces a fundamental shift that occurs in the way parrhesia is conceived, from the inherited right of democratic speech in the agonistic politics of fifth-century Athens to the honest speech offered by the philosophical counselor to the prince or other instances of aristocratic and sovereign power in the fourth century and the Hellenistic period.
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