Il gioco della verità e della politica: Michel Foucault e le lezioni parigine sulla parrhesia (1982-1983)

On the definition of parrhesia. Transcript of the French lectures given by Foucault between January and February 1983 (Le gouvernement de soi et des autres, Cours au College de France 1982-1983, Gallimard-Seuil, Paris 2008). Monica Centanni introduces the words of Faucault with the definition of parrhesia as an act of human courage and a political act. Parrhesia is precisely the action by which, in the assembly where the laws are equal for all citizens and all citizens have guaranteed the right to speak, a citizen stands up and takes the floor, playing his aretè , his virtues of wisdom, of rhetorical technique, of individual courage.