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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"parrhesia"”.
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Reclaiming Rhetorical Intersectionality: From Silence to Parrhesia and Attuned Listening
<p>Intersectionality is a term applied by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in the late 1980s to a social experience. A person experiences intersectionality when different aspects of her identity converge in a way that causes uniquely amplified marginalization or oppression. The classic three identities …
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Diogenes in his own time.
… which focused on freedom of speech or parrhesia, self-sufficiency and autonomy - ideals,which attracted modern philosophers, like Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Foucault. I conclude that a better reading of Diogenes displays an intelligent and witty philosopher who lived as he spoke. His …
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Never Forgets: Traumatic Trace Within Public Space
… Foucault and Maurizio Lazaratto’s ideas of parrhesia, or spontaneous subjectivity. This is an investigation of loss, in terms of who has the privilege to be remembered and how we can find spaces to leave trace so we, she, he, they and I never forgets.</p>
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The discursive construction of the concept of creativity in Australian education policy and practice
… Foucault’s concepts of ethical self-formation, parrhesia and counter-conduct, I analyse practices undertaken by a teaching deputy-principal in the construction of his subjectivity, and consider how these practices co-opt and counter neoliberalised and disciplined inflections of creativity. The …
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Foucault, Rogerian argument, and feminist standpoint theory: intersecting discourses concerning welfare reform during the 1990s
… in print. Finally, it combines Foucault's parrhesia with feminist standpoint theory and applies them to the interviews of women living in poverty. This approach not only rethinks and revisions how these theories could work together to examine language, but it also explores how they could be …
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The Deconstruction of Hell: A History of the Resignatio ad Infernum Tradition
… and Foucault's late lectures on the concept of parrhesia. In the first two chapters, I explore the scriptural antecedents to the tradition (ch. 1), along with post-biblical 'tours of hell' (ch. 2).</p> <p>In the third and last chapter of Part One, I read Augustine's doctrine of hell, which …
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The necropolitical crisis of racial subjectivity in the South African postcolony: black consciousness as a technology of the self and the limits to transformation
… reading of ancient Greek notions of parrhesia and political spirituality can be found in Biko's work on Black Theology and the reconstruction of Black subjectivity through several rational techniques that are performatively embodied in his writings and sacrificial militancy, deploying …
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English Higher Education as 'dressage': investigating academic and student identities within consumerist discourses
… dressage, surveillance, responsibilisation, the parrhesiastic contract and resistance. The thesis provides an original contribution to knowledge as it finds that, for most students, the discourse of full-fees has been normalised and accepted. However, this acceptance has resulted in a new …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… by witches/heretical magi is a form of parrhesia – an expression of truth telling that exposes the simulacra of absolute order conjured by the state. This, in turn, can inspire imagination, fantasy, and invention of a world considered unreal under current material conditions. Rejecting …
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Cynical Futurities: A Critical Methodological Intervention Toward a Cynical Geography
In this dissertation, I disentangle the Cynical figure – one who is capable of confronting structures of power by speaking truth to power – within a Westernized, Euro-centric discourse that authorizes the Cynic as an exceptionally powerful political subjectivity. Heeding the words of Sylvia Wynter, …
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Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, the EU and the Potential to Realize Nietzsche's Idea of Europe
… from the ancient cynics, the concept of <em>parrhesia</em> (fearless speech in mocking ascetic values). These practices support the necessary perspectivalist stance toward all truth claims to radically affirm the chaos of becoming. The adherents of such an anti-essentialist discipline revel …