Michel Foucault: Parrhesia (Truth-Telling) Dan Care Of The Self

Michel Foucault. The will to truth

Wiener Library, London). And there were at least some medical "Resistance fighters". This book is certainly an Arbeitsbuch which can help to provoke further research, but in itself it is rather one-sided: the (scarce) attempts at interpretation it offers should especially be read and used with critical caution. But, as far as it goes, it has its merits and deserves wide attention. Alan Sheridan...

Michel Foucault Ethics Subjectivity and Truth

Michel Foucault, Technologies of the Self

When I began to study the rules, duties, and prohibitions of sexuality, the interdictions and restrictions associated with it, I was concerned not simply with the acts that were permitted and forbidden but with the feelings represented, the thoughts, the desires one might experience, the drives to seek within the self any hidden feeling, any movement of the soul, any desire disguised under illu...

Thinking with Foucault about Truth-Telling and The Daily Show

This essay brings together two practitioners of critical irony, Michel Foucault and Jon Stewart, to examine problems in the standard critiques of the impact of irony on cultural discourse. For years, critics have bemoaned the increased use of irony in culture, arguing that too much irony in public discourse leads to the formation of distant and disengaged subjects. Using Foucault’s work on parr...

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