Courageous listening as political ethos

• In Event: Circulating Truth(s) : Criticism and the Politics of Speech in Greek Political Thought

Brief Overview

This paper argues that courageous listening, an under-theorized element of Foucault’s late work on parrhēsia, can help address concerns that Foucault’s late work is obsessed with ethics at the expense of politics.

Author

• Sam McChesney, Northwestern University