M. Foucault - The Courage of Truth (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France Book 8)

The Courage of the Truth

Also in this series:

SOCIETY MUST BE DEFENDED

(North America & Canada)

ABNORMAL

(North America & Canada)

THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE SUBJECT

(North America & Canada)

PSYCHIATRIC POWER

SECURITY, TERRITORY, POPULATION

THE BIRTH OF BIOPOLITICS

THE GOVERNMENT OF SELF AND OTHERS

Forthcoming in this series:

THE WILL TO KNOW

PENAL THEORIES AND INSTITUTIONS

THE PUNITIVE SOCIETY

ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LIVING

SUBJECTIVITY AND TRUTH

The Courage of the Truth

(The Government of Self and Others II)

LECTURES AT THE COLLGE DE FRANCE

19831984

Edited by Frdric Gros
General Editors: Franois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana

English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson

TRANSLATED BY GRAHAM BURCHELL

This book is supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the Burgess programme run by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in London. (www.frenchbooknews.com)

THE COURAGE OF THE TRUTH
ditions du Seuil/Gallimard 2008, Edition established under the direction of Franois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana, by Frdric Gros. Translation Graham Burchell 2011.

All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.

No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC 1N 8TS.

Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published 2011 by
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.

Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martins Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.

Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries

ISBN 9781403986689 hardback

This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11

Printed and bound in Great Britain by
CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne

Epistemological structures and alethurgic forms. Genealogy of the study ofparrhsia: practices of truth-telling about oneself. The master of existence in the domain of the care of self. Its main defining feature:parrhsia. Reminder of the political origin of the notion. Double value ofparrhsia. Structural features: truth, commitment, and risk. The parrhesiastic pact.parrhsiaversus rhetoric.parrhsiaas a specific modality of truth-telling. Differential study of two other kinds of truth-telling in ancient culture: prophecy and wisdom. Heraclitus and Socrates.

The truth-telling of the technician. The object of parrhesiastic truth-telling:thos. The composition of four truth-tellings in Socrates. Philosophical truth-telling as joining together of the functions of wisdom and parrhsia. Preaching and the university in the Middle Ages. A new combinatorial structure of truth-telling. The reconfiguration of the four modalities of veridiction in the modern epoch.

parrhsiain Euripides: a privilege of the well-born citizen. Criticism of democratic parrhsia: harmful for the city and dangerous for the person who exercises it. Socrates political reserve. The blackmail-challenge of Demosthenes.