This article interprets the fourth conference in a series of six delivered by Foucault at Berkele... more This article interprets the fourth conference in a series of six delivered by Foucault at Berkeley (University of California) from October to November 1983. The issue of parrhesia taken up by the French philosopher in Plato's dialogue Laques raises a discussion on the meanings of democracy, a political system in decline in Athens at the end of the fifth century BC. Articulating the comic and philosophical discourses, the strength and gaps in Foucault's text are highlighted at the same time. If, on the one hand, Foucault's interest in truth forces a return to "speaking frankly", on the other hand, this conference lacks a broader perspective that takes account of parrhesia as a symptom of a lack and decay of the Athenian democratic spirit under the terms proposed in Laches. Derives from this lack, for example, the idea that, from a conceptual point of view, Laques would be “a failure”.
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The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the mediatization of cases of woman shearing builds... more The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the mediatization of cases of woman shearing builds, in language and through language, an aesthetics of strangeness which reassures discourses that point out social, historical and cultural borders. In order to achieve this goal, two thoughts are articulated theoretically: the Bakhtinian thought, especially his insistence on the semiotic-ideological dimension of language, and Barthesian postulates, especially his understanding of the semiological construction of trauma. From the methodological point of view, two registers and the propagation of the shearing of women in two historical events are contrasted: in France, during the period called Liberation, in the 1940s, and in present Brazil, in Rio de Janeiros's slums which live side by side with the culture of drug traffic. In this study, we try to answer the following question: after so many decades, how does this French post-war voice emerge in the Brazilian context, (re-)signifying the same practices? The analysis developed here shows that the "prose" of shorn women mobilizes different voices which, by imprinting their marks on utterances, stratify language and draw socio-cultural borders.
This article interprets the fourth conference in a series of six delivered by Foucault at Berkele... more This article interprets the fourth conference in a series of six delivered by Foucault at Berkeley (University of California) from October to November 1983. The issue of parrhesia taken up by the French philosopher in Plato's dialogue Laques raises a discussion on the meanings of democracy, a political system in decline in Athens at the end of the fifth century BC. Articulating the comic and philosophical discourses, the strength and gaps in Foucault's text are highlighted at the same time. If, on the one hand, Foucault's interest in truth forces a return to "speaking frankly", on the other hand, this conference lacks a broader perspective that takes account of parrhesia as a symptom of a lack and decay of the Athenian democratic spirit under the terms proposed in Laches. Derives from this lack, for example, the idea that, from a conceptual point of view, Laques would be “a failure”.
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Jul 1, 2015
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the mediatization of cases of woman shearing builds... more The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the mediatization of cases of woman shearing builds, in language and through language, an aesthetics of strangeness which reassures discourses that point out social, historical and cultural borders. In order to achieve this goal, two thoughts are articulated theoretically: the Bakhtinian thought, especially his insistence on the semiotic-ideological dimension of language, and Barthesian postulates, especially his understanding of the semiological construction of trauma. From the methodological point of view, two registers and the propagation of the shearing of women in two historical events are contrasted: in France, during the period called Liberation, in the 1940s, and in present Brazil, in Rio de Janeiros's slums which live side by side with the culture of drug traffic. In this study, we try to answer the following question: after so many decades, how does this French post-war voice emerge in the Brazilian context, (re-)signifying the same practices? The analysis developed here shows that the "prose" of shorn women mobilizes different voices which, by imprinting their marks on utterances, stratify language and draw socio-cultural borders.
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takes account of parrhesia as a symptom of a lack and decay of the Athenian democratic spirit under the terms proposed in Laches. Derives from this lack, for example, the idea that, from a conceptual point of view, Laques would be “a failure”.
takes account of parrhesia as a symptom of a lack and decay of the Athenian democratic spirit under the terms proposed in Laches. Derives from this lack, for example, the idea that, from a conceptual point of view, Laques would be “a failure”.