Parrēsia

The obligation to manifest the truth about oneself forms part of the penitential ritual. This is exomologesis, a kind of dramatization of oneself as a sinner, which is realized through clothing, fasting, ordeals, exclusion from the community, standing as a supplicant at the door of the church, and s...

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Published in:Critical inquiry 2015-01, Vol.41 (2), p.219-253
Main Author: Foucault, Michel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ancient philosophy
Anger
Discourse
Flattery
Freedom of speech
Listening
Oratory
Philosophers
Philosophy
Slaves
Soul
Treatises
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Summary:The obligation to manifest the truth about oneself forms part of the penitential ritual. This is exomologesis, a kind of dramatization of oneself as a sinner, which is realized through clothing, fasting, ordeals, exclusion from the community, standing as a supplicant at the door of the church, and so on. A dramatization of oneself as a sinner, a dramatic expression of oneself as a sinner, by which one acknowledges one is a sinner, but without doing this--at any rate, without necessarily, primarily, or fundamentally doing this-through language: this is exomologesis. Here, Foucault discusses parresia as an obligation.
ISSN:0093-1896
1539-7858
DOI:10.1086/679075