{"title":"Books by Henri–paul Fruchaud","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780226509464","title":"\"Discourse and Truth\" and \"Parresia\"","description":"The volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, \"Parresia,\" delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled \"Discourse and Truth,\" given at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, which appears here for the first time in its full and correct form. Together, they provide an unprecedented account of Foucault's reading of the Greek concept of parresia, often translated as \"truth-telling\" or \"frank speech.\" In typically Foucauldian style, the lectures trace the transformation of this concept across Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought, from its origins in pre-Socratic Greece to its role as a central element of the relationship between teacher and student. 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":"9780226774831","title":"Madness, Language, Literature","description":"Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism.      Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit in his later, more well-known writings. Collected here, these previously unpublished texts reveal a Foucault who undertakes an analysis of language and experience detached from their historical constraints. Three issues predominate: the experience of madness across societies; madness and language in Artaud, Roussel, and Baroque theater; and structuralist literary criticism. Not only do these texts pursue concepts unique to this period such as the “extra-linguistic,” but they also reveal a far more complex relationship between structuralism and Foucault than has typically been acknowledged.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227924443509,"sku":"9780226774831","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226774831_52d65278-79be-4b57-a11a-de436e67c2ce.jpg?v=1786012770"},{"product_id":"9780226383446","title":"\"What Is Critique?\" and \"The Culture of the Self\"","description":"Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self—now in paperback.    On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefined his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel Kant’s 1784 text “What Is Enlightenment?” Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral attitude consisting in the “art of not being governed like this,” one that performs the function of destabilizing power relations and creating the space for a new formation of the self within the “politics of truth.”This volume presents the first critical edition of this crucial lecture alongside a previously unpublished lecture about the culture of the self and three public debates with Foucault at the University of California, Berkeley, in April 1983. There, for the first time, Foucault establishes a direct connection between his reflections on the Enlightenment and his analyses of Greco-Roman antiquity. However, far from suggesting a return to the ancient culture of the self, Foucault invites his audience to build a “new ethics” that bypasses the traditional references to religion, law, and science.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56311625875829,"sku":"9780226383446","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682650792309,"sku":"9780226854427","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226383446_a5b9788e-635f-4075-9a5b-3eb5cf5a49b1.jpg?v=1792511588"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-henri-paul-fruchaud.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}