Naslov
Parrhesia as Alethurgic Practice

Autori
Pešić, Boško ; Ivanko, Martina

Izvornik
Phainomena (1318-3362) 100-101 (2017); 113-134

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Foucault ; parrhesia ; alethurgia ; truth ; democracy ; politics ; philosophy ; power.

Sažetak
Parrhesia, the concept on which Foucault gave lectures at the Collège de France, is essentially a Greek concept and literally means to say everything. With parrhesia, the relation between the individual who practices parrhesia and the truth is the most important, whereat he at the same time realizes the relation with himself, and then also with other people. In ancient Greece, parrhesia was mainly realized either in the democratic or the autocratic form of government, as witnessed in some of Euripides’ tragedies like Ion, or Plato’s The Seventh Letter. Parrhesia in ancient Greece also appears as a kind of care of the self (ἐπιμέλεια ἑαυτοῦ), and Foucault considers that very important. In the first two cases parrhesia was related to philosophy only indirectly – the emphasis in the mentioned cases was always on the political, on the very political action. Parrhesia as the care of the self is undoubtedly directly related to philosophy and one may say that in some way it is realized as philosophy itself. In this sense, parrhesia can be considered as alethurgic practice – as an act of producing truth, truth as the happening of the subject itself. This alethurgic practice rests on the importance of the principle of truth-telling about oneself as the assumption of the care for singularity. Aside from his lectures, parrhesia as an explicit concept absents from Foucault’s other works, but this is exactly the way in which it is present in them. As a new care of the self, it is just one possible answer to the procedures of power that occur through apparatus in the modern age.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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