Truth Telling in Foucault and Arendt: Parrhesia, the Pariah and Academics in Dark Times

Autor/in	Tamboukou, Maria
Titel	Truth Telling in Foucault and Arendt: Parrhesia, the Pariah and Academics in Dark Times
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 27 (2012) 6, S.849-865 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2012.694482
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Philosophy; Ethics; Reputation; Discourse Modes; Politics; France; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Ethik; Diskursethik; Politik; Frankreich; Großbritannien
Abstract	In this paper, I consider the problem of truth telling through the notion of parrhesia as developed and explicated in Foucault's last lectures at the College de France (1982-1983 and 1983-1984) and the figure of the pariah that runs throughout Arendt's work. In tracing connections and tensions in the way the two thinkers explore questions and dilemmas around the courage to tell the truth in philosophy and politics, I look into the current climate within the UK academia, where there is a lot of ambivalence about whether people mean what they say or say what they mean anymore. In a Foucauldian mode of inquiry, I raise the question: what is the role of the academic when going through "dark times", vis-a-vis questions of truth telling; what are the conditions of possibility for truth telling itself to be recognised as a question or a problem and how can we start mapping the effects of what we as academics do or refrain from doing? (Contains 27 notes.) (As Provided).
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