Licentious Speech: Parrhesia and Political Power in Foucault and Euripides

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

Brief Overview

This paper reads Michel Foucault's Collège de France Lectures with Euripides' Orestes to argue that autocratic actors can appropriate truth-telling to mobilize elite interests in democratic assemblies.

Author

• Ani Chen, Cornell University