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In mapping the concept's history, Foucault's concern is not to advocate for free speech; rather, his aim is to explore the moral and political position one must occupy in order to take the risk to speak truthfully. In his analysis of parresia, Foucault both advances his project of a history of the present and paves the way for a genealogy of the critical attitude in modern and contemporary societies.    These essays--carefully edited and including notes and introductory material to fully illuminate Foucault's insights--are a major addition to Foucault's English-language corpus that no scholar of ancient or modern philosophy will want to miss.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56227660366197,"sku":"9780226509464","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682808701301,"sku":"9780226854410","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226509464_e343bd4f-d39e-42dd-9c50-252ccd263b8d.jpg?v=1792511661"},{"product_id":"9781784787158","title":"The Security Principle","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe idea of security—from ancient Greece to the War on Terror\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Security Principle\u003c\/i\u003e, French philosopher Frédéric Gros takes a historical approach to the concept of security, looking at its evolution from the Stoics to the social network. With lucidity and rigour, Gros’s approach is fourfold, looking at security as a mental state, as developed by the Greeks; as an objective situation and absence of all danger, as prevailed in the Middle Ages; as guaranteed by the nation-state and its trio of judiciary, police, and military; and finally biosecurity, control, regulation, and protection in the flux of contemporary society. In this deeply thought-provoking account, Gros’s exploration of security shines a light both on its past meanings and its present uses, exposing the contemporary abuses of security and the pervasiveness of it in everyday life in the Global North.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305246273909,"sku":"9781784787158","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784787158_d9e61c20-2082-4bbf-80d1-b3651b80fb20.jpg?v=1786026072"},{"product_id":"9781788736312","title":"Disobey","description":"\u003cb\u003eExploring the philosophy of disobedience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus? Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of civic disobedience and lyrical protest. Nothing can be taken for granted: neither supposed certainties nor social conventions, economic injustice or moral conviction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThinking philosophically requires us never to accept truths and generalities that seem obvious. It restores a sense of political responsibility. At a time when the decisions of experts are presented as the result of icy statistics and anonymous calculations, disobeying becomes an assertion of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo philosophize is to disobey. This book is a call for critical democracy and ethical resistance.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306732237173,"sku":"9781788736312","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788736312_291f3ba3-da39-404b-b8e4-99cb62e5c5d9.jpg?v=1786027016"},{"product_id":"9781804290446","title":"A Philosophy of Walking","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis “passionate affirmation of the simple life, and joy in simple things” explores how walking influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and Jack Kerouac to Gandhi and Nietzsche (\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307017154933,"sku":"9781804290446","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804290446_f4e28d66-3165-4f4b-8054-6a054dd73eed.jpg?v=1786026689"},{"product_id":"9781804294154","title":"A Philosophy of Shame","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn original reflection on shame as the central feeling of our age — the expression of an anger that is the necessary condition for new struggles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation. We feel ashamed of humanity for its ruthless and relentless exploitation of the earth. We feel ashamed of the racism and sexism that permeate society and our everyday lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis difficult emotion is not just sadness or a withdrawal into oneself, nor is it a paralysing sense of inadequacy. As Frédéric Gros argues in \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Shame\u003c\/i\u003e, it arises when our perception of reality rejects passivity and resignation and instead embraces imagination. Shame thus becomes the expression of an anger that is a powerful, transformative force —one that assumes a radical character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn dialogue with authors such as Primo Levi, Annie Ernaux, Virginie Despentes and James Baldwin, Gros explores a concept that is still little understood in its anthropological, moral, psychological and political depths. Shame is a revolu­tionary sentiment because it lies at the foundation of any path of subjective recognition, transformation and struggle.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685882372469,"sku":"9781804294185","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56307575718261,"sku":"9781804294154","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804294185_90414952-701b-45fa-8112-d40b0e44a77e.jpg?v=1792599107"},{"product_id":"9781804296028","title":"A Philosophy of War","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eA Philosophy of Walking \u003c\/i\u003ereturns to address the eternal subject of human conflict\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRussia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to many like a throwback to another age, rattling Europe with memories of past horrors. 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