The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault by Lorenzini, Daniele

The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault

A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault's history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and...
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Author: Daniele Lorenzini
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The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault by Lorenzini, Daniele

The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault

CHF 55.27

The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault

CHF 55.27
Author: Daniele Lorenzini
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault's history of truth.

Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher's project. Foucault did not question truth itself but what Lorenzini calls "the force of truth," or how some truth claims are given the power to govern our conduct while others are not. This interest, Lorenzini shows, drove Foucault to articulate a new ethics and politics of truth-telling precisely in order to evade the threat of relativism. The Force of Truth explores this neglected dimension of Foucault's project by putting his writings on regimes of truth and parrhesia in conversation with early analytic philosophy and by drawing out the "possibilizing" elements of Foucault's genealogies that remain vital for practicing critique today.

Author: Daniele Lorenzini
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/13/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780226827452

About the Author
Daniele Lorenzini is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a prolific editor of Michel Foucault's works, most recently Madness, Language, Literature, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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