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Michel Foucault acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. He died in 1984.
Arnold I. Davidson (Editor) is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and Professor of the History of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. He lives in Chicago.
Graham Burchell (Translator) is the translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault. He is an Editor of The Foucault Effect.
Foreword | p. xi |
Translator's Note | p. xvii |
5 January 1983: First Hour | p. 1 |
Remarks on method | |
Study of Kant's text: What is Enlightenment? | |
Conditions of publication: journals | |
The encounter between Christian Aufklärung and Jewish Haskala: freedom of conscience | |
Philosophy and present reality | |
The question of the Revolution | |
Two critical filiations | |
5 January 1983: Second Hour | p. 25 |
The idea of tutelage (minorité): neither natural powerlessness nor authoritarian deprivation of rights | |
Way out from the condition of tutelage and critical activity | |
The shadow of the three Critiques | |
The difficulty of emancipation: laziness and cowardice; the predicted failure of liberators | |
Motivations of the condition of tutelage: superimposition of obedience and absence of reasoning; confusion between the private and public use of reason | |
The problematic turn at the end of Kant's text | |
12 January 1983: First Hour | p. 41 |
Reminders of method | |
Definition of the subject to be studied this year | |
Parresia and culture of self | |
Galen's On the Passions and Errors of the Soul | |
Parresia: difficulty in defining the notion; bibliographical reference points | |
An enduring, plural, and ambiguous notion | |
Plato faced with the tyrant of Syracuse: an exemplary scene of parresia | |
The echo of Oedipus | |
Parresia versus demonstration, teaching, and discussion | |
The element of risk | |
12 January 1983: Second Hour | p. 61 |
Irreducibility of the parrhesiastic to the performative utterance: opening up of an unspecified risk/public expression of a personal conviction/bringing a free courage into play | |
Pragmatics and dramatics of discourse | |
Classical use of the notion of parresia: democracy (Polybius) and citizenship (Euripides) | |
19 January 1983: First Hour | p. 75 |
Ion in the mythology and history of Athens | |
Political context of Euripides' tragedy: the Nicias peace | |
History of Ion's birth | |
Alethurgic schema of the tragedy | |
The implication of the three truth-tellings: oracle, confession (l'aveu), and political discourse | |
Structural comparison of Ion and Oedipus the king | |
The adventures of truth-telling in Ion: the double half-lie | |
19 January 1983: Second Hour | p. 97 |
Ion: A nobody, son of nobody | |
Three categories of citizen | |
Consequences of political intrusion by Ion: private hatreds and public tyranny | |
In search of a mother | |
Parresia irreducible to the actual exercise of power and to the citizen's status | |
The agonistic game of truth-telling: free and risky | |
Historical context: the Cleon/ Nicias debate | |
Creusa's anger | |
26 January 1983: First Hour | p. 113 |
Continuation and end of the comparison between Ion and Oedipus: the truth does not arise from an investigation but from the clash of passions | |
The rule of illusions and passions | |
The cry of confession and accusation | |
G. Dumézil's analyses of Apollo | |
DuméZil's categories applied to Ion | |
Tragic modulation of the theme of the voice | |
Tragic modulation of the theme of gold | |
26 January 1983: Second Hour | p. 131 |
Tragic modulation of the theme of fertility | |
Parresia as imprecation: public denunciation by the weak of the injustice of the Powerful | |
Creusa's second confession (aveu): the voice of confession (confession) | |
Final episodes: from murder plan to Athena's appearance | |
2 February 1983: First Hour | p. 149 |
Reminder of the Polybius text | |
Return to Ion: divine and human veridictions | |
The three forms of parresia: statutory-political; judicial; moral | |
Political parresia: its connection with democracy; its basis in an agonistic structure | |
Return to the Polybius text: the isegoria/parresia relationship | |
Politeia and dunasteia: thinking of politics as experience | |
Parresia in Euripides: The Phoenician Women; Hippolytus; The Bacchae; orestes | |
The Trial of Orestes | |
2 February 1983: Second Hour | p. 173 |
The rectangle of parresia: formal condition, de facto condition, truth condition, and moral condition | |
Example of the correct functioning of democratic parresia in Thucydides: three discourses of Pericles | |
Bad parresia in Isocrates | |
9 February 1983: First Hour | p. 187 |
Parresia: everyday usage; political usage | |
Reminder of three exemplary scenes: Thucydides; Isocrates; Plutarch | |
Lines of evolution of parresia | |
The four great problems of ancient political philosophy: the ideal city; the respective merits of democracy and autocracy; addressing the Prince's soul; the philosophy/rhetoric relationship | |
Study of three texts by Plato | |
9 February 1983: Second Hour | p. 209 |
Plato's letters: the context | |
Study of Letter V: the phone constitutions; reasons for non-involvement | |
Study of Letter VII | |
Dion's history | |
Plato's political autobiography | |
The journey to Sicily | |
Why Plato accepts: kairos; philia; ergon | |
16 February 1983: First Hour | p. 223 |
Philosophical ergon | |
Comparison with the Alcibiades | |
The reality of philosophy: the courageous address to power | |
First condition of reality: listening, the first circle | |
The philosophical oeuvre: a choice; a way; an application | |
The reality of philosophy as work of self on self (second circle) | |
16 February 1983: Second Hour | p. 245 |
The failure of Dionysius | |
The Platonic rejection of writing | |
Mathemata versus sunousia | |
Philosophy as practice of the soul | |
The philosophical digression of Letter VII: the five elements of knowledge | |
The third circle: the circle of knowledge | |
The philosopher and the legislator | |
Final remarks on contemporary interpretations of Plato | |
23 February 1983: First Hour | p. 259 |
The enigmatic blandness of Plato's political advice | |
The advice to Dionysius | |
The diagnosis, practice of persuasion, proposal of a regime | |
Advice to Dion's friends | |
Study of Letter VIII | |
Parresia underpins political advice | |
23 February 1983: Second Hour | p. 285 |
Philosophy and politics: necessary relationship but impossible coincidence | |
Cynical and Platonic game with regard to politics | |
The new historical conjuncture: thinking a new political unit beyond the city-state | |
From the public square to the Prince's soul | |
The Platonic theme of the philosopher-king | |
2 March 1983: First Hour | p. 299 |
Reminders about political parresia | |
Points in the evolution of political parresia | |
The major questions of ancient philosophy | |
Study of a text by Lucian | |
Ontology of discourses of veridiction | |
Socratic speech in the Apology | |
The paradox of the political non-involvement of Socrates | |
2 March 1983: Second Hour | p. 325 |
End of study of Socrates' Apology: parresia/rhetoric opposition | |
Study of the Phaedrus: general plan of the dialogue | |
The conditions of good logos | |
Truth as permanent function of discourse | |
Dialectic and psychagogy | |
Philosophical parresia | |
9 March 1983: First Hour | p. 339 |
The historical turnaround of parresia: from the political game to the philosophical game | |
Philosophy as practice of parresia: the example of Aristippus | |
The philosophical life as manifestation of the truth | |
The permanent address to power | |
The interpellation of each | |
Portrait of the Cynic in Epictetus | |
Pericles and Socrates | |
Modern philosophy and courage of the truth | |
9 March 1983: Second Hour | p. 357 |
Study of the Gorgias | |
The obligation of confession (aveu) in Plato: the context of liquidation of rhetoric | |
The three qualities of Callicles: episteme; parresia; eunoia | |
Agonistic game against egalitarian system | |
Socratic speech: basanos and homologia | |
Course Context | p. 377 |
Index of Names | p. 393 |
Index of Concepts and Notions | p. 397 |
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